AT&T Inc. will use OneWeb\u2019s low-earth orbit satellites to offer broadband to businesses in remote areas, in the British-backed venture\u2019s first deal with a big U.S. phone company.<\/p>\n
OneWeb is racing against Elon Musk\u2019s rival Starlink system to offer internet to consumers and businesses in regions of the world where terrestrial fixed and wireless connections aren\u2019t profitable. Both are striking up partnerships with telecommunication companies to reach critical mass.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re expanding our network with one more option to help ensure that our business customers have the high-speed, low-latency connectivity they need,\u201d AT&T\u2019s president of network engineering and operations, Scott Mair, said in a statement outlining the deal. Financial terms weren\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n
OneWeb was rescued from bankruptcy last year by Britain\u2019s government and Indian billionaire Sunil Mittal, and aims to offer services in northern latitudes by the end of this year. The partnership with AT&T follows deals with Britain\u2019s BT Group Plc and Canada\u2019s Northwestel Inc.<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is approaching near global coverage for Starlink and says it\u2019s signed deals with two \u201cmajor country\u201d telecom operators that it hasn\u2019t named. Unlike OneWeb, it also plans to go direct to consumers.<\/p>\n
OneWeb and Starlink are among the most advanced players in a low-earth orbit space race that\u2019s absorbing billions of dollars in investment. The technology threatens the position of traditional satellite companies, whose larger spacecraft orbit much further from earth, meaning their internet connections are slower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AT&T Inc. will use OneWeb\u2019s low-earth orbit satellites to offer broadband to businesses in remote areas, in the British-backed venture\u2019s first deal with a big U.S. phone company. OneWeb is racing against Elon Musk\u2019s rival Starlink system to offer internet to consumers and businesses in regions of the world where terrestrial fixed and wireless connections aren\u2019t profitable. Both are striking up partnerships with telecommunication companies to reach critical mass. \u201cWe\u2019re expanding our network with one more option to help ensure that our business customers have the high-speed, low-latency connectivity they need,\u201d AT&T\u2019s president of network engineering and operations, Scott Mair, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}