Our joint venture with Hughes will be primary source of sales into the rest of the market including government, defence," Mr Mittal said.Free Basics is skewed towards generic, western-produced content. "Airtel enterprise wing will be selling these services to enterprise customers. He said that the company has had discussions with Indian armed forces, navy and everyone is waiting for the services. We are combining with them," Mr Mittal said. ![]() I am not going to fight with Airtel, Jio, Vodafone or globally any telecom operator. "We will not be going to go to end customers. The Bharti group founder also said that he expects all permission required for services launch in India to be in place by July-August and the company will sell the service through partners instead of selling it directly. "India will become a destination to manufacture these terminals because Chinese terminals are unlikely to be manufactured in most part of the world," Mr Mittal said. He said that OneWeb is in discussion with companies to manufacture user satellite terminals in India. He said that OneWeb has global capacity of 1.1 TBPS of which 11 GBPS is dedicated for India. "I personally don't feel that India will go away from the global practices," Mr Mittal said. Mr Mittal said that the spectrum for satellites is a shared resource and globally it has been allocated without auction. While OneWeb has the permit for satellite services launch, it needs to wait till Spacecom Policy is in place and spectrum is allocated to the company for transmitting signals. He said that each launch in India cost around Rs 500 crore. He said that the launch marks a very important day for India where is to ISRO and NCIL have established themselves as a serious significant player in the commercial space launch industry in the world. But importantly, I think the prime minister of India recognised the moment and directed the entire space ecosystem in India to step up and give two rockets to OneWeb, that to my mind has been a game changer for us," Mr Mittal said. But I'm glad they stepped up to give us three rockets. SpaceX is one of the companies but you know they're also our competitors. He said that India has emerged as one of the serious players in space industry. Not only OneWeb has been struggling to get money back, it lost 36 satellites," Mr Mittal said. Six launches that were fully paid for were taken out. "We had a big setback with Russia-Ukraine war. He said that the company is operational now in most of countries in northern hemisphere and regretted exit of Russia from OneWeb business map. Our pricing is very competitive in the satellite segment," Mr Mittal said. We now have USD 800-900 million of contract across the globe now. "80 per cent of the bandwidth has already been contracted globally. ![]() He said that the launch will bring high-speed equivalent to 4G plus or 5G services for in-flight and maritime services. Talking about affordability, Mr Mittal said that some of the governments overseas have deployed universal services obligation fund to bring down the cost of satellite broadband services for their citizens. Indian Space Research Organization's Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) placed 36 OneWeb satellites in a low earth orbit following a successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. ![]() What is available in India for 2 and 2.5 dollars a month? No, because that is a pricing which is extremely low," Mr Mitttal said.Įarlier in the day, OneWeb constellation took total count of its constellation to 618 satellites with the launch of 36 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites by NewSpace India Limited (NSIL). "If you ask me, can the pricing of satellite communication be at par with mobile tariffs? Whatever is currently available in the Western world, it can be done today.
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