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OneWeb has no announced plans to enter the business of selling direct to consumers. They want to only sell to other businesses. Their constellation has much lower capacity (smaller and fewer satellites) anyway so that's understandable. Also remote northern towns I believe still have network connections and I doubt a wisp will help much. Alaska has a decent number of very isolated people with complete off grid properties.



yes, as I said, a oneweb terminal could be acquired by a local WISP and used as the primary uplink to serve a remote area. With the local ISP doing distribution of network services by point to multipoint unlicensed band wireless fiber, whatever is practical and financially possible.

The capital equipment cost for a oneweb terminal is much too great for anyone except maybe a very wealthy person with a private island. It's a big set of two motorized tracking antennas in radomes with their own RF chains.

> Also remote northern towns I believe still have network connections and I doubt a wisp will help much

in many cases these are connected by existing geostationary satellite links which are at minimum 492ms, and the $ per dedicated Mbps cost is quite bad. If oneweb can beat the geostationary operators on $/Mbps ratio, they will win a lot of business. Just as o3b beat the geostationary operators for high capacity links into places like pacific nation islands with no submarine fiber.




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