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Satellite broadband promises to be the next big thing in providing the broadband services in India in the next six months or so. It is expected to be much faster than present connectivity we get. It requires no wires and towers to connect the websites. The next telecom fight to be witnessed over providing Satellite broadband connections.
Some of the biggest satellite broadband providers including OneWeb, SpaceX, Nelco and Hughes - are betting big on the opportunity to deliver satellite-based fast internet services - anywhere, anytime. Sources said, Starlink also has reportedly filed applications for the necessary licences to operate in India.
Bharti Global is geared with its OneWeb for India. Now Bharato has to face the competition with Tata Group subsidiary business Nelco, is in “advanced talks” with Canada’s Telesat satellite operation and looking to sign up Telesat as a supplier of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) broadband capacity from Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation now under construction.
A report says that Tata is looking to commit to a Master Service Agreement for Lightspeed LEO over Europe. The reports suggest that services would start in 2024. Tata and Telesat plan to work on the business-to-business (B2B) model wherein the satellite bandwidth will be offered to telcos so that they can provide to areas where mobile connectivity is weak. The two companies are also said to be planning to work on ways to make satellite broadband affordable in India.
If an agreement is signed then Tata will join Bharti in having secured exclusive access to capacity. However, while Bharti says that it could commence services to India by mid-2022, any Lightspeed service is some way off given that satellite builder Thales Alenia is talking about “two years” from its order in February 2021.
Then, even allowing for partial services, the orbiting craft will need deploying and testing, hence the delay until 2024 for complete service introduction.
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