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Does anyone know why Hughes, a OneWeb investor, placed and won bids solely within the state of Rhode Island? Is this some sort of squatting play to qualify them
by roamingryan 6y ago
Does anyone know why Hughes, a OneWeb investor, placed and won bids solely within the state of Rhode Island? Is this some sort of squatting play to qualify them for future solicitations?
Given the state of OneWeb, it seems very unlikely they will be able to deliver even across such a tiny geographic area.
- wmf 6y agoI assume the Hughes bids are for HughesNet not OneWeb.
- octoberfranklin 6y agoYeah there is a scheme where a bidder can "assign" their winning bid to a subsidiary. A lot of telcos are required to keep their local exchanges as unmerged separate corporations for regulatory reasons.
- roamingryan 6y agoInteresting because HughesNet as it exists today is serviced with GEO satellites. These can't hit the latency requirements of the RDOF program Only the OneWeb sats at LEO can deliver on the latency requirements. It will be interesting to see what happens as the FCC reviews the "long form" applications.
- wmf 6y agoRDOF has a high-latency tier to accommodate GEO.