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The initiative comes as European policymakers face mounting pressure to establish greater control over communications infrastructure considered essential to national security, economic resilience and military operations.
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Europe’s reliance on U.S. satellite services has become particularly sensitive following reported disruptions affecting satellite communications used by Ukraine. …
European satellite operators, including Eutelsat and SES, are increasingly viewed as important participants in the continent’s efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign communications networks.
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Isn’t eutelsats parent company partly Indian owned? But cool.
Edit: ah yep, wiki says 17% owned by some Indian telecom, bharti.
Slowly moves to fast-track
(Sorry, I am European, and support the EU, but speed is not our strong side)
Switching between the systems would also require new terminals and supporting equipment, complicating efforts to replace existing services.
This is what you get if you use proprietary stuff instead of Open Source.
It wouldn’t help even if EU went with open source or something as Ukraine is already using proprietary terminals. But perhaps it would help in future.
The American lead is vast. This seems like an opportunity for Bezos. He could get the EU to subsidize the Amazon satellite program by giving the EU full control of the system, while allowing Amazon traffic through, for free, in perpetuity.
