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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. Sounds like just the ticket by Tastecicles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    for Navy buckets operating out of normal, unrestricted hardline/line-of-sight microwave/wifi ranges.

    NATO have already approved Avanti satellite uplinks for operational use.

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  2. LEO or GEO by rossdee · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Where are the satellites, LEO or GEO ?

    I'm guessing GEO so ping times sux

    (Oh I spose I should clarify - LEO = Low Earth orbit - no more that a couple of hundred miles up. GEO = Geostationary - up at 25000 miles so it stays in the sameplace relative to the ground.)