A satellite broadband company, part of the Eutelsat Group, whose low-orbit network serves businesses, governments and telecom operators, with its UK office in West London.
Eutelsat OneWeb provides internet connections by satellite to businesses, governments including defence customers, telecom operators and community groups. It does this from low Earth orbit, where its satellites circle about 1,200 km up, much closer than the older satellites used for television, which means less delay on a connection. Wikipedia reported 652 working satellites in October 2024. It does not sell directly to households. Instead, people are directed to local telecom partners. Its parent group, Eutelsat, describes itself as the world's first operator with satellites in both geostationary and low orbits and offers customers a single point of access to both.
The company was founded in 2012 as WorldVu by Greg Wyler, who with colleagues from Google and the satellite operator O3b Networks developed the idea of a very large constellation of satellites in 2014. It launched its first six satellites in February 2019. It went through a restructuring in 2020 and emerged under new ownership in November 2020. In 2022 Eutelsat announced a merger, and the Eutelsat Group was formed in September 2023, led from Paris. The company's own line, listed on a job-site profile, is "Space is the future for infinite connectivity on Earth". It does not state a longer mission in the pages we read.
In the UK, the company's profile on Built In London gives its address as 195 Wood Lane, West Works Building, third floor, London W12 7FQ, in White City, and lists the headcount as 541. That profile is a third-party listing and the figure may be out of date. Wikipedia names offices in Paris, London and Virginia. The London operation includes the people who design the network and plan the service. Its satellites are built by Airbus OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture with Airbus, in Florida and Toulouse, not in the UK.
We found no first-party description of the culture. What the profile pages show is a technical business that blends a historic satellite operator with a younger constellation team, and that works through partners around the world, which means a lot of contact with customers and telecom firms abroad. We have not tested these descriptions and they should not be taken as claims by the company.
Jobs at a company like this include satellite and network engineers, people who plan and operate the constellation, software and data specialists, cyber security staff, and sales, partnership, legal, finance and human resources colleagues who work with customers and governments. Physics, engineering, computing, mathematics and business degrees all lead in. The company's website is the place to see current roles, and an understanding of how the internet reaches remote places is a good thing to bring to any application.
Website: oneweb.net
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