The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has again delayed approval of a proposal by National Telecom (NT) for licences to operate a service using a foreign satellite.
The move puts on ice NT’s long-awaited partnership with low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite operator OneWeb, for which it provide gateway station facilities.
OneWeb is a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group providing broadband satellite internet services. Headquartered in London, it has a satellite manufacturing facility in Florida that is a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.
According to an NBTC source who requested anonymity, the satellite operator Thaicom submitted a letter to NBTC to urge the regulator to carefully consider whether it should award a licence to provide gateway station facilities for a foreign satellite, specifically satellite broadband…
