Companies say that this announcement is a turning point for Digital India. Enterprises including telecom companies, banks, factories, schools are eagerly waiting for the high performance satcom service to arrive in the country.
HCIPL President and Managing Director Partho Banerjee said, “By harnessing the potential of OneWeb, we look forward to bringing high-speed, low-latency service.
OneWeb was recently launched on 27 December 2021. It has so far delivered 394 satellites into space. OneWeb is working on sending a total of 648 satellites into orbit. In this way, it has launched 60 percent of the target’s satellites.
The company is preparing to start its service worldwide by the end of 2022. Significantly, the demand for low-latency and high-speed connectivity continues across the world.
OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson said the company is pleased to partner with Hughes. OneWeb will cover the length and breadth of India from Ladakh to Kanyakumari and from Gujarat to the Northeast. It will bring secure solutions for Enterprise, Governments, Telecom, Airline companies. The company will also invest in building enabling infrastructure like gateways and POP (Point of Presence) in India, he added.
Hughes, on the other hand, is a shareholder of OneWeb through his parent company EchoStar. It is also the ecosystem partner of OneWeb, which is developing Gateway Electronics in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
Keep in mind that OneWeb is a UK tech company. OneWeb has resumed its launch after recovering from bankruptcy. The company has also secured investments from Japan’s SoftBank and Eutelsat Communications. Bharti Enterprises is also helping the company. In this way, OneWeb has achieved a total of $ 2.4 billion.
Companies of many countries are working to make ‘Satellite Internet’ accessible to the people. Elon Musk’s company SpaceX SpaceX’s Starlink Starlink is also moving in this direction.
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