Starlink competitor, OneWeb, has signed a deal with Telstra to use the satellite network as backhaul for "Telstra's most remote mobile sites across Australia, improving the use of real-time applications such as voice and video calling". The agreement will see 25gbit/s of capacity on OneWeb's low earth orbit constellation assigned to Telstra's mobile most remote phone towers and help Telstra expand its network to cover an additional 100,000 square kilometers by the mid-2025. Telstra is also testing the use of OneWeb as a back-up to fixed backhaul for "selected critical sites".
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