Satellite broadband to the rescue?
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in broadband on
While the likes of Virgin are happy to go on about their new fat 50Mbit internet pipes, the fact is that is that a sizable proportion of this green and pleasant land have what can only be described as rubbish internet connections.
That’s hardly conducive to watching the BBC iPlayer in HD, or setting up a business.
Stepping into the gap is a company called Tooway, a new brand from Eutelsat, which is, literally, launching a satellite service that aims to bring a 10Mbit service to the UK and Europe with a 1Mb upstream. This will be possible when it launches its KA-SAT satellite next year, which will be dedicated to broadband.
The service will cost £29.99 a month, though the initial outlay of £400 for the dish is likely to put many potential customers off. For a business though that will probably be an investment worth making.
Before KA-SAT reaches orbit, Tooway will offer a 2Mbit service with a 256k upload.
To sweeten the pill Eutelsat, says that it will also be able to offer a triple-play of services such a phone and TV on demand.
The company says the latency won’t be an issue for almost all applications, save perhaps for some online games, but VoIP and video won’t be affected. However, if it does get popular though, contention may be – so you may not get the maximum speed all the time.
On the face of it, Eutelsat could be the missing link for those who really can’t get decent service via ADSL, cable or mobile broadband, and the government should be thankful that its helping it reach its rather modest Digital Britain target of 2Mbit/sec connections for the whole country.
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