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#MintPrimer | Jio Platforms has launched a venture with European satellite-based company SES to enter the satellite internet space.

With this, the top two telecom operators in India are exploring satellite services | bit.ly/3oTwazs

(By @undertecher & @distantvicinity)

#MintPrimer | Militaries across the world have depended on satellite communications for a long time. However, many military experts, too, consider this form to be unreliable and too expensive to be made the sole communication medium.

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#MintPrimer | The applications and the power of satellite internet are often exaggerated. In reality, these networks have limitations, the biggest being high latency and low bandwidths

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#MintPrimer | The reason telecom firms want to explore satellite internet is that there are areas where fibre connections just can’t reach.

Satellite networks are used to bring connectivity in such areas, which include hills and remote islands.

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#MintPrimer | Jio’s JV will use geostationary (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites, while Starlink and OneWeb use low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

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