Hughes, OneWeb Partner on Data Services

OneWeb and Hughes signed a distribution agreement for enterprise services in the U.S. and a pact for distribution of services to businesses, government, telcos and ISPs across India, Hughes said Thursday. It said it and OneWeb plan to broaden distribution globally, with Hughes offering OneWeb's connectivity. Hughes President Pradman Kaul said OneWeb will help it meet India's "tremendous backhaul and broadband demand." Hughes said the two tested real-time seamless switching between OneWeb's low earth orbit constellation and Hughes' Jupiter 2 geostationary satellite in August. Hughes is an investor in OneWeb (see 2101150070).