OneWeb, the UK satellite broadband company co-owned by the UK government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global, has agreed a deal that will see it using Indian rockets to send its hardware into space. As the BBC reports, the rockets belong to New Space India, which is the commercial arm of India's national space agency. OneWeb already uses the services of the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, which it was forced to turn to after its deal with the Russian space agency crumbled in the wake of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. (See Eurobites: OneWeb turns to SpaceX as Russian rocket deal misfires.)

Russia's antitrust regulator has been given the green light by a Moscow court to open a case against Apple relating to the US giant's App Store. As Reuters reports, Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) began the case against Apple in October, accusing it of preventing app developers from telling customers about alternative payment options when using the App Store. In a separate case, law firm Chernyshov, Lukoyanov & Partners said this week that it was preparing a suit against Apple for what it alleged was a violation of Russian consumers' rights after the company restricted the use of Apple Pay following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

XtndNet, which describes itself as the "UK's newest ISP," is using the forthcoming Connected North event in Manchester (April 25-26) to launch a hybrid satellite Internet service that it says guarantees reliable connectivity for "places left behind by traditional provider[s]." One element of the company's offer is what it calls a "12 Gb Space Superhighway backed by a leading satellite broadband provider."

A new Ericsson report into the connected trucks market details how the "Amazon Effect" has forced logistics companies to up their game in terms of telematics and the use of the data the technology generates. The report looked at how Orange Belgium has been working with fleet management company ZF Transics, equipping the trucks with eSIMs to enable global roaming connectivity to enable ZF to manage long-haul deliveries.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading