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Europe Gets Pay-As-You-Go Satellite Broadband

Posted by timothy on from the bird-gives-you dept.

judgecorp writes "Europe is set to get pay-as-you-go high speed satellite broadband from Avanti's Ka-band HYLAS1 satellite in the 26.5 — 40GHz range. Avanti says satellite broadband services have improved massively including a far better uplink than used to be available, though the round-trip latency can't be improved much." Conspicuously missing: the actual price.

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  1. It's probably worth pointing out... by Gordonjcp · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... that there are companies in the UK and EU who have been doing satellite broadband for over a decade now, with both flat-rate and pay-as-you-go billing.

    This is *one* company that has started to provide it, nothing particularly new here.

  2. Re:Conspicuously missing: the actual price by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Un, no. Pay-as-you-go means pre-pay. It's the exact opposite of receiving a bill at the end of the month.

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  3. The latency... by __Paul__ · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...makes these services next to useless, especially now that the web isn't just a bunch of static pages anymore. I was using satellite broadband a few years ago, in rural Australia - it was barely better than the dialup line it replaced. We only took it up because the line quality on the dialup degraded to such a state that it couldn't stay online for longer than twenty minutes, and Telstra were incapable of fixing it.

    Only low-orbit satellites are going to be able to make satellite-broadband useful.

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