Inmarsat

Inmarsat has struck deals with Indian airline SpiceJet Ltd and the Shipping Corp of India Ltd, Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Suri said in an interview

Inmarsat's connectivity comes from satellites in geostationary orbit, but it will likely end up competing with new deep-pocketed low-earth orbit satellite rivals like Elon Musk's SpaceX

Inmarsat, the global satellite operator is looking at India to offer commercially high speed internet services on mobile phones allowing users to stream videos flying on a plane or driving on highways, once its next generation satellite is launched in two years.Inmarsat has a fleet of four Global Xpress (GX) satellites - that have Ka band transponders with ability to beam high speed broadband on mobiles, currently, the only operational fleet in the world. A fifth one, to be launched in 2019 will cover India, a market as its chief executive Rupert Pearce says is an "important long term opportunity.""It also gives us access to the Indian Subcontinent for the first time, because it allows us to put a gateway in India to support GX services and break into India with GX services, which is an important long-term - I stress, long-term opportunity," Pearce said earlier this week.The satellite operator is setting up a gateway jointly with a local firm in the country to offer the commercial .