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New Satellite to Give Millions of Europeans Broadband Access

2010-12-31 10:22 by
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High-quality broadband access for all Europeans came a step closer this week when the second European satellite dedicated to delivering broadband Internet connections was launched.

An estimated 20 million Europeans in so-called "not-spots" (mainly in rural or mountainous areas) cannot get a decent broadband connection. But the six-tonne Ka-Sat aims to change that using spot beams. The Ka-band payload provides coverage of selected parts of Europe where the greatest opportunities exist for broadband service provision via satellite.

The Ka-Sat, launched from Kazakhstan on Monday, follows the Hylas satellite and is considerably bigger with a notional capacity to serve up to two million households compared with Hylas's 300,000. However such is the demand, that Ka-Sat's owner, Paris-based Eutelsat, is confident that it will be a highly successful venture.

Eutelsat already broadcasts thousands of TV channels from its other spacecraft as well as some Internet capability, but this is its first broadband-dedicated satellite. Ka-Sat is due to begin operating in the second quarter of 2011.

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by sava700 - 2010-12-31 13:55
And its funny we as a nation here in the US can't get beyond the slow speeds or horrible low caps from Satellite internet now. Hughes net and wildblue are both way too expensive for what you get as well.
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