{"id":50627,"date":"2024-09-03T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/softbank-taps-eutelsat-for-leo-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:53:32","slug":"softbank-taps-eutelsat-for-leo-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/softbank-taps-eutelsat-for-leo-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Taps Eutelsat for LEO Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> has signed a new, multi-year deal with <strong>SoftBank<\/strong> which will see the company integrate Eutelsat\u2019s<strong> OneWeb<\/strong> LEO connectivity services into its offering and provide a new element to the company\u2019s satellite communication services. Initially, the deal will focus on the Japanese market, but will expand to Japanese customers in other territories. Eutelsat announced the deal, Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank plans to use OneWeb\u2019s connectivity services to deliver a robust bandwidth- and communication speed-guaranteed service to customers including corporations and government entities. It will directly interconnect with SoftBank\u2019s closed network service \u2018SmartVPN\u2019 for additional security communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy using the OneWeb LEO constellation it becomes possible to use high-quality, highly secure satellite communications services in places such as maritime and mountainous areas where connectivity is difficult to provide with terrestrial mobile networks.&nbsp;This will enable us to promote digital transformation in various industries and for local governments, heralding a new era in secure, ubiquitous connectivity services,\u201d Masakatsu Kawahara, vice president, head of Communication Service Division, SoftBank, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>OneWeb and Softbank have a long history, and Softbank was an investor in the first iteration of the company. In 2020, Softbank pulled out of a funding round which was one of the factors that led to OneWeb\u2019s bankruptcy. Softbank later invested in the company\u2019s second iteration before Eutelsat acquired OneWeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat has signed a new, multi-year deal with SoftBank which will see the company integrate Eutelsat\u2019s OneWeb LEO connectivity services into its offering and provide a new element to the company\u2019s satellite communication services. Initially, the deal will focus on the Japanese market, but will expand to Japanese customers in other territories. Eutelsat announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50176,"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-50627","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\/50627"}],"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=50627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}