London — It was nine years ago that O3B started as an idea but it seems like an eternity. But with the launch of its second constellation of 4 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites, it will now begin to swing into operation with services targeted at a range of countries, largely where fibre is absent. Russell Southwood spoke to Daniel Schapiro about current operations and what's planned.
Greg Wyler came up with the idea of launching O3B to connect the 3 billion unconnected globally and saw MEO satellite constellations as a way of making satellite capacity as cheap as fibre.
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