of 72 satellites reportedly at a cost of rs 1000 crore after it had to scrap the arrangements with russias soyuz rockets following the ukraine conflict oneweb uses a constellation of low earth orbit leo satellites to provide broadband internet access instead of the traditional method of using satellites placed in geostationary orbits geo 36000 kms above the equator leo satellites placed in orbits ranging from 200 km to 1500 km from earth compared to 3600 0km for geo satellites significantly increase the bandwidth and reduce latency in space to around 5070 milliseconds ms a report by gsma intelligence an industry body said latency refers to the time taken by a data packet to be transmitted from a user to the internet service provider through the satellite network the latency for geo satellite networks is in the range of 500700 ms which limits their use to 2g and 3g communicationsfacebooktwitterlinkedinend of article10910131298799128