Eutelsat OneWeb (formerly OneWeb) is a satellite communications company aiming to bridge the digital divide by providing high-speed, low-latency broadband internet services globally via a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. As a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group, it focuses on delivering connectivity solutions to governments, enterprises, and communities in underserved areas, as well as to the maritime and aviation sectors. Key partners include distribution partners, Airbus (through OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture for satellite manufacturing), and technology providers like Microsoft Azure and AWS for network peering.
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC, and Hughes Communications India Private Ltd. will offer services under the US and India distribution agreements with OneWeb.
OneWeb planned to offer high-speed, low-latency connectivity services globally by late 2022.
A demonstration on 2021-08-26 featured real-time seamless switching between the Hughes JUPITER 2 geostationary high-throughput satellite and OneWeb’s low-latency LEO constellation using Hughes ActiveTechnologies software.
Hanwha Systems bought an 8.8% stake in OneWeb for $300,000,000.
On 2021-09-07, Kymeta successfully tested its u8 broadband terminal on OneWeb’s low-Earth-orbit constellation, achieving 200 megabits per second downlink speeds.
Neil Masterson joined OneWeb as CEO in November 2020 after spending roughly two decades at Thomson Reuters where he was most recently co-chief operating officer.
OneWeb expected to launch partial services in the Northern Hemisphere within 60 to 90 days from the time of the report.
OneWeb was engaged in distributor partnership discussions with multiple telecom partners and had an earlier distributor partnership with British telco BT announced on 2021-06-27.
OneWeb’s enterprise-grade network has capability to serve hard-to-reach businesses and communities and to support improved capacity and coverage in remote, rural, and challenging geographic locations.
OneWeb’s constellation is planned to include 648 satellites and nearly half of that 648-strong constellation had been deployed at the time of the report.
OneWeb had deployed nearly 300 satellites to low Earth orbit by the end of August 2021, representing 44% of its planned constellation.
OneWeb partnered with local telco Alaska Communications to support services in Alaska.
OneWeb has deployed enough satellite coverage to provide service from 50 degrees north to the North Pole by the end of 2021.
Hanwha made a strategic investment that provides OneWeb an additional $300,000,000 on top of the $2,400,000,000 previously identified for the initial constellation.
Eutelsat closed a $550,000,000 equity investment in OneWeb on 2021-09-08.
AT&T signed a strategic agreement with OneWeb to use satellite technology to improve access for AT&T business customers in remote and challenging geographic locations.
OneWeb expects to complete Southern Hemisphere coverage by summer 2022 and global coverage by the end of 2022.
OneWeb is exploring offering a global navigation service from LEO and believes it can provide a navigation capability with its existing first-generation satellites and complete it with the second generation.
Neil Masterson helped OneWeb secure more than $2,400,000,000 of funding to fully fund its initial constellation without incurring debt.
OneWeb was founded in 2012 to connect schools and provide consumer broadband to underserved regions.