Oneweb isn’t comparable to Starlink. You need a huge dish with a very powerful radio. A typical installation runs around $10000+ and can’t be very mobile. It works well enough for larger boats, but not for anything that moves fast. Installations are large and power hungry, so powering them off a small battery like they do with Starlink wouldn’t be possible with Oneweb. The setup for those installations is also a hassle, not something a regular person could do in a few minutes without specialized technical knowledge. The price for usage is also much higher as compared to Starlink, around 10 times more expensive.
There’s also the issue Oneweb isn’t exactly EU. Eutelsat is French, so that’s fine, but the UK has a large share and India does as well. I’m not sure dealing with 2 extra governments in an already complicated project would be a good thing.
However Eutelsat is being used in Ukraine for a secondary internet source for fixed installations funded by Germany, so it isn’t like Eutelsat isn’t being used, but it is no where near a real alternative to Starlink.
Oneweb isn’t comparable to Starlink. You need a huge dish with a very powerful radio. A typical installation runs around $10000+ and can’t be very mobile. It works well enough for larger boats, but not for anything that moves fast. Installations are large and power hungry, so powering them off a small battery like they do with Starlink wouldn’t be possible with Oneweb. The setup for those installations is also a hassle, not something a regular person could do in a few minutes without specialized technical knowledge. The price for usage is also much higher as compared to Starlink, around 10 times more expensive.
There’s also the issue Oneweb isn’t exactly EU. Eutelsat is French, so that’s fine, but the UK has a large share and India does as well. I’m not sure dealing with 2 extra governments in an already complicated project would be a good thing.
However Eutelsat is being used in Ukraine for a secondary internet source for fixed installations funded by Germany, so it isn’t like Eutelsat isn’t being used, but it is no where near a real alternative to Starlink.