Mar 27 2020
Negotiating Debtor-in-Possession Financing to Support its Ongoing Business and a Sale Process LONDON, UK, March 27, 2020 – OneWeb (“OneWeb,” “the Company”), the global communications company with a mission to bring connectivity to everyone everywhere, announced today that the Company and certain of its controlled affiliates have voluntarily filed for relief under Chapter 11 of […]
Feb 7 2020
A year after orbiting the first six OneWeb satellites, Arianespace has launched another batch – involving 34 satellites this time – to help its customer offer global Internet access to all. Arianespace will carry out 19 more Soyuz launches – along with the Ariane 62 version’s first flight – at the service of OneWeb, with […]
Jan 23 2020
Nigeria’s Communications Commission (NCC) has granted OneWeb permission to provide satellite communications over and into the giant country. OneWeb is not alone and the NCC has granted similar access licences to Inmarsat, Eutelsat, SES, Intelsat, Avanti’s Hylas-2, and the UAE’s Yahsat. To date, the NCC has not included SpaceX’s Starlink mega-constellation for access to the […]
Jan 15 2020
ALASKA – 15 January 2020. OneWeb, the global communications company whose goal is to connect everyone everywhere, announces a new distributor partnership with Pacific Dataport Inc. (PDI), a company founded by Microcom – the leading supplier of satellite communication systems in Alaska. The collaboration will enable the delivery of OneWeb’s high speed, low latency, communications […]
Jun 1 2017
Luxembourg 1 June 2017 – Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) (“Intelsat”) today announced that the previously announced (i) offer or offers to exchange (collectively, the “Exchange Offers”) certain of the respective outstanding senior unsecured notes (the “Existing Notes”) issued by its indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries, Intelsat Jackson Holdings S.A., Intelsat Connect Finance S.A., and Intelsat (Luxembourg) S.A. (collectively, […]
Jun 15 2015
French satellite builder Airbus has won an order for 900 satellites from Jersey-based OneWeb. The deal was announced at the Paris Air Show. The multi-billion dollar order will see 600-650 of the satellites launched, and the balance kept in reserve. Backers to the scheme include telecoms giant Qualcomm and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Branson’s […]
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Sep 8 2021
Eutelsat completes OneWeb equity investment
Paris, 8 September 2021 – Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) confirms the closing of its $550m equity investment in OneWeb announced on April 27, 2021. Subject to completion of the subsequently announced investments in OneWeb by Bharti and Hanwha, Eutelsat will hold a 17.6% stake. Rodolphe Belmer, Chief Executive Officer of Eutelsat, said: “We are […]
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By Expat • Eutelsat • Tags: OneWeb