Comments on: The Nth Coming of Satellite Broadband

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:56:55 +0000

Long before Telesat started their Canada-only service, a company called Novanet Communications Limited (disclosure: I'm a former employee) rolled out NovaConnect, a Canada-wide satellite-based broadband service. It operated on a Telesat satellite, but long before Telesat offered anything similar. Unlike this comment, Novanet was early to the party here in Canada : )

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » WildBlue or Wild Goose Chase?

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » WildBlue or Wild Goose Chase? — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:27:19 +0000

[...] od-speed connections to consumers and businesses who are off the high-speed Internet grid. I wrote about the whole satellite trend last week. But this quote from Greg C [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:17:37 +0000

I am not sure what progress has been made in these technologies, but from what I know, the first generation and even the second generation stuff was bit mediocre. and as a result i feel that this is forcing a solution, on something which clearly is a big problem

By: Nitin Ahuja

Nitin Ahuja — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:00:26 +0000

I see Satellite Broadband and technologies like EDGE/EVDO to be competing technologies where wireless broadband would win over satellite. As wireless networks expand and technologies like WiMax mature, this would naturally happen. People are looking for a single platform access for data and voice needs (convergence), I dont see Satellite Broadband as that medium

By: dano

dano — Thu, 26 May 2005 23:09:42 +0000

I have a friend who had satellite internet service for a while before they could get DSL. It was terrible. One thing that is not in these figures is the latency — which is really bad. In addition, things like rain and clouds would mess with the service. Don’t plan on hooking up your Xbox 360 to one of these services.

By: Martin Geddes

Martin Geddes — Thu, 26 May 2005 22:41:25 +0000

If people believe that there is a market for this stuff, it kinda suggests that the universal service fund isn’t exactly doing its job of providing people in rural areas with the universal services they desire. (Oh, and shouldn’t we start to refer to it as Universal Connecitivity, just to annoy telco lobbyists?)