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The Government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global have today made a successful \u00a3800m ($1bn) bid to acquire the British-registered space company OneWeb<\/a>, which will see the UK invest \u00a3400m ($500m) in order to help build a new global network of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for ultrafast broadband and possibly GPS.<\/p>\n

Until a few months ago OneWeb<\/a> was still in the process of building a large constellation of 648 compact LEO satellites (74 have already launched), which would have seen them achieve a reasonable level of global coverage by around the end of 2021. In theory this constellation could then grow to many thousands of satellites, as demand requires (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Each LEO weighs roughly 150kg+ and is only waist high (with solar panels folded-in) – tiny when compared with double decker bus sized GSO satellites. The platforms use Ka band (20-30GHz) and Ku band (11-14GHz) spectrum.<\/div>\n

The low altitude of such spacecraft enables them to deliver significantly faster latency and “fibre-like<\/em>” broadband ISP speeds have also been promoted for remote areas. Indeed an early test from last year hit speeds of 400Mbps<\/strong> and delivered an average latency of 32ms<\/strong>, which is impressive for a Satellite<\/a> technology (existing satellites are usually much slower).<\/p>\n

The huge double-decker bus sized geostationary orbit (GEO \/ GSO) satellite<\/a>(s) of old sit many times further away from Earth (distance of about 35,000km+ vs around 500-1300km for LEOs) and have significant coverage, but their snail like latency times and limited capacity are a disadvantage for broadband performance. Likewise each one takes years and hundreds of millions to build, which makes them slow to adapt.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately OneWeb<\/a>, which has already had c.$3bn of investment from SoftBank in Japan, is the kind of high risk space company that has to spend vast amounts of money before being able to make any income (most are like that but LEO constellations on this scale are an entirely new field). Today’s deal won’t change that reality.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say that money worries are a fact of life for OneWeb<\/a> and this has recently combined with the arrival of COVID-19<\/strong> to create a perfect storm, which forced the company to file for voluntary relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the USA. Since then they’ve been desperately hunting for a buyer and a consortium involving the UK Government has today won the bid.<\/p>\n

OneWeb’s Future Direction<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The official announcement states that the UK government will invest $500 million and take a “significant equity share<\/em>” in OneWeb. Meanwhile Bharti, which is the third largest mobile network operator in the world (over 425 million customers<\/strong>), intends to<\/span> provide the company with commercial and operational leadership, as well as a “revenue base to contribute towards its future success<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The deal specifically states that it will enable the company to “complete construction of a global satellite<\/a> constellation<\/em>” in order to provide “enhanced broadband<\/em>” and “other services<\/em>” to countries around the world. Previous reports have said that the Government will attempt to adapt OneWeb’s fleet to support a new complementary GPS<\/strong> style navigation \/ positioning system (i.e. cheaper than investing up to \u00a35bn to make their own), although today’s deal makes no specific mention of that.<\/p>\n

The agreement also seems likely to result in some or all of OneWeb’s manufacturing base being moved into the UK, where there is a fairly strong satellite construction industry present.<\/p>\n

Alok Sharma, UK Business Secretary, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This deal underlines the scale of Britain\u2019s ambitions on the global stage. Our access to a global fleet of satellites has the potential to connect millions of people worldwide to broadband, many for the first time, and the deal presents the opportunity to further develop our strong advanced manufacturing base right here in the UK.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adrian Steckel, CEO of OneWeb, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are delighted to have concluded the sale process with such a positive outcome that will benefit not only OneWeb\u2019s existing creditors, but also our employees, vendors, commercial partners, and supporters worldwide who believe in the mission and in the promise of global connectivity. The combination of HMG and Bharti will bring immediate value as we develop as a global leader in low latency connectivity.<\/p>\n

This successful outcome for OneWeb underscores the confidence in our business, technology, and the work of our entire team. With differentiated and flexible technology, unique spectrum assets and a compelling market opportunity ahead of us, we are eager to conclude the process and get back to launching our satellites as soon as possible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the surface this deal appears to make sense and that may well be confirmed over the coming years, but on the other hand OneWeb remains an unproven business model and they’re up against better established rivals, such as SpaceX<\/strong>. Similarly the idea of using LEOs to do GPS does have merit, although there are a lot of unknowns about how you adapt that to these satellites (they weren’t designed for GPS) and how effective it would be.<\/p>\n

Lest we forget that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson<\/strong>, has put \u00a35bn<\/strong> on the table to help spread \u201cgigabit-capable<\/em>\u201d broadband to every home by the end of 2025, which will focus on the final 20% of premises. Admittedly OneWeb\u2019s network doesn\u2019t seem likely to deliver 1Gbps to each home, but as a measure of last resort it could still have a role to play (note: government frameworks often set a lower minimum speed threshold).<\/p>\n

However the Government may risk becoming the target of rising anger from astronomers, particularly if the LEOs turn out to be as disruptive to astronomical observation science as feared. SpaceX\u2019s rival Starlink<\/a><\/strong> network has already given us a few hints about that, which is despite the fact that none of these constellations are currently anywhere close to their final size (NOTE: LEOs have a short lifespan and they will de-orbit to help control the “space junk<\/em>” problem).<\/p>\n

One way or another the Government are taking a risk and it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out. Otherwise the transaction remains subject to approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, as well as regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, but those should be done by Q4 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global have today made a successful \u00a3800m ($1bn) bid to acquire the British-registered space company OneWeb, which will see the UK invest \u00a3400m ($500m) in order to help build a new global network of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for ultrafast broadband and possibly GPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,38,77,477],"class_list":["post-22989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-politics","tag-satellite","tag-science"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nOneWeb Broadband Satellite Service Sold to UK Gov Consortium - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global have today made a successful \u00a3800m ($1bn) bid to acquire the British-registered space company OneWeb,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/oneweb-broadband-satellite-service-sold-to-uk-gov-consortium.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OneWeb Broadband Satellite Service Sold to UK Gov Consortium - 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