Ariane Launches A New Way To Get Online

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 18, 2004 @05:52AM from the please-start-this-one-up-quick dept.

pdaoust007 writes "According to the BBC, 'Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has lifted off after three earlier delays, carrying the world's largest commercial telecoms satellite.' There is also coverage from the CBC and some video here." What's really interesting is what's on board that satellite, though: "Telesat Canada, a subsidiary of BCE, has commercialized the Ka-band technology to allow universal high-speed access to internet service. Apparently, this should make high speed access available anywhere in North America. Gear will be $500 and service $60/month ($CDN)."

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Re:the vast bulk of.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-18 07:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I use cell phone for voice, I only use the landline for inet connction, that's it. My dialup connection goes out whenever some squirrel jumps on the line or a rain cloud passes over, so that's no big deal anyway with occassional outtages, it's expected.

Can't you move out of the sticks? I'm in a nice quiet suburban midwestern neighborhood and have 6Mbps/768Kbps ADSL and I'm quite happy with it. If you want to live on a farm then you should be milking cows or something, not trying to surf the web.