Jio announces its satellite-based broadband service in India
Reliance Jio has partnered with SES to form Jio Space Technology Limited. Which will develop satellite-based broadband technology in India with speeds of up to 100Gbps.
Reliance Jio announced on Monday that it would launch satellite-based broadband services across India in collaboration with SES. A Luxembourg-based telecommunications company. Jio Space Technology Limited, a joint venture. Will lead the development of broadband services by combining geostationary (GEO) also medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellations. Jio stated that the broadband service would be capable of providing multi-gigabit links and capacity to enterprises, mobile backhaul. And retail customers at a maximum speed of 100Gbps.
Although there is no appellation for Jio’s new satellite-base broadband service. It poses a hazardto Elon Musk’s Starlink. Which is struggling to find a way into the homes of India’s internet users. Musk’s Starlink began taking pre-orders in India last year. Still, due to government intervention regarding the licensing of its internet services, the company was forced to halt its market launch.
After the blow, starlink was forced to refund pre-order money to interested users. Who was equally disappoint by the government’s decision.
Although Starlink has not yet been officially launch in India. It has provided the necessary impetus for India’s internet service providers to pursue the satellite-based broadband technology space to win it first.
Jio has announced that it owns 51% of the joint venture, with SES owning the remaining 49%. “As part of [the] investment plan,” Reliance Jio stated, “the joint venture will set extensive gateway infrastructure in India to provide benefits within the country.” In addition, “Jio, as the joint venture’s anchor customer, has entered into a multi-year capacity purchase agreement based on certain milestones and gateways and equipment purchase, with a total contract value of around [the] US $100 million.”
Jio Space Technology, the joint venture, will use SES-12, SES’s high-throughput GEO satellite for India. And O3b mPOWER, SES’s MEO constellation, to extend and improve Jio’s terrestrial network, “increasing access to digital services and applications.”
