Reuters exclusively reported on April 4 that Eutelsat<\/b> has been supplying satellite internet to Ukraine with funding from the German government. <\/p>\n
Eutelsat has been providing the connectivity for about a year through a German distributor, Reuters reported. Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke spoke with Reuters, saying currently there are less than 1,000 user terminals, but she expects it to ramp up and it could reach 5,000 to 10,000 terminals within weeks. Read the full story from Reuters. <\/em><\/p>\n Eutelsat\u2019s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) services are currently deployed in Ukraine supporting government and institutional communications, Katie Dowd, Eutelsat director of Government & Corporate Affairs Communication, confirmed to Via Satellite. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOur OneWeb solutions can provide an alternative for certain government and defense applications. We are actively collaborating with European institutions and business partners to enable the swift deployment of additional user terminals for critical missions and infrastructure,\u201d Dowd said in a statement.<\/p>\n Dowd said the company\u2019s Geostationary (GEO) services could work as a complement to \u201cprovide additional capacity over Ukraine as well as stronger resilience for critical infrastructure connectivity.\u201d <\/p>\n European leaders have called for the EU to invest in European alternatives to SpaceX\u2019s Starlink. Eutelsat is one of the satellite operators leading the development of the IRIS\u00b2 constellation, a European constellation with satellites in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to provide secure connectivity services and broadband to the EU and its Member States. <\/p>\n Last month at SATELLITE, Berneke said there is a lot of government interest in Eutelsat and its OneWeb constellation, and ramping up around the EU is a priority for the company. <\/p>\n \u201cUsers simply want multiple sources of supply, even in the cases where we are head to head [with Starlink],\u201d Berneke said. \u201cA lot of our customers say they want alternatives. They don\u2019t want to be caught in a potential monopoly situation with a single supplier. They want to have multiple solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reuters exclusively reported on April 4 that Eutelsat has been supplying satellite internet to Ukraine with funding from the German government. Eutelsat has been providing the connectivity for about a year through a German distributor, Reuters reported. Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke spoke with Reuters, saying currently there are less than 1,000 user terminals, but she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}