Bharti-backed OneWeb, Kazakhstan in partnership to accelerate connectivity ANI | Updated: Apr 12, 2021 16:59 IST New Delhi [India], Apr 12 (ANI): Bharti Group backed OneWeb said on Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kazakhstan's Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, national satellite operator Republican Centre of Space Communications JSC, National Company Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary and Ghalam LLP, a spacecraft component supplier. The MoU develops OneWeb's partnership with the government of Kazakhstan which began in 2020 to support Kazakhstan's ambition to digitise its economy and become a pioneer of the latest satellite communications technologies. The MoU encompasses several areas of cooperation including use of OneWeb's low latency, high throughput satellite connectivity platform to provide broadband to remote and hard-to-reach rural communities, building a ground station to provide connectivity to Central Asian countries and localisation of the supply chain for OneWeb's low earth orbit satellites.