Question: Which of the following Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist who along with the British Government recently acquired OneWeb a global communications network company?
a) Rattan Tata
b) Sunil Bharti Mittal
c) Mukesh Ambani
d) Anil Ambani
Answer: (b)
Related Facts
- On 18 December 2020; Bharti Global and U.K. government-led OneWeb launched the 36 communications satellites.
- It aims to offer high-speed internet from its constellation of satellites in India by mid-2022.
- One Web is a global communications network powered from space, headquartered in London.
- It should be known that OneWeb, the satellite internet group recently rescued from bankruptcy.
- Recently billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal-run Bharti Group along with the British government taken over this company.
- Now the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company OneWeb recommenced its satellite launch programme.
- The company has launched the 36 satellites on 18 December 2020, from a Soyuz launch vehicle, which began from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, in Russia.
- This takes the total in-orbit constellation to 110 satellites, part of OneWeb’s 648 LEO satellite fleet that will deliver high-speed, low-latency global connectivity.
- The launch puts OneWeb on track to offer global services to customers from late 2021.
- Its network will fully come into global service in 2022 starting with the United Kingdom, Alaska, Northern Europe, Greenland, Iceland, the Arctic Seas, and Canada.
- OneWeb has secured global priority spectrum rights and now successfully completed four launches and aims to offer high-speed internet from OneWeb satellites in India by mid-2022.
- Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said this launch is one of many steps we have taken to operationalise one of the world’s first LEO constellation
- Mittal said there is an overwhelming demand for broadband as the pandemic has taxed infrastructure everywhere and many people worldwide are left with little to no options to access the internet.
- OneWeb’s system will help meet existing and future demand by delivering broadband connectivity to the communities, towns, regions left unconnected or under-connected.
- Bharti Global an overseas arm of Bharti operates out of London and has investments in telecom, technology, hospitality, transportation and energy.
By – Rajesh Tripathi