Satellite bandwidth may drive down prices

an article written by the MD of a company about that company? Shouldn't this go under the advertising section?
 
Yawn,

Another article promising lower bandwidth prices at some unknown point in the distant future... :rolleyes:
 
Satellite had its chance here but blew it. They've had years and years of missed opportunities where installing a proper satellite network would have made a huge difference and allowed them to dominate the market, but now HSDPA for mobility/underserviced areas and Seacom/EASSY/etc for international long haul have killed off any real chance it had.

Of course when the article is written by the MD of a company pushing satellite, the future all seems pretty rosy :rolleyes:
 
I tend to agree with the writer, but as in wired and wireless services that we currently got nobody is willing to lower prices to attract more customers.

I had an internet cafe that used satellite for the downloading part and a leased line for uploading (28kbps). It worked like a charm and it was uncapped. The biggest cost on the connection was the leased line (thanks to telkom).

Mebbe my kids kids will have cheap broadband but by that stage there will prob be something else.
 
I saw we have a SHOWDOWN! The iBurst guy who said cheaper international b/w won't affect pricing much and this Satellite guy. So who's right? FIGHT! FIGHT! :)
 
Satellite bandwisth is too laggy, and always has slower latencies than fibre. I suppose the poorer people will have to make do tho. I'm happy with my T3, unshaped, uncapped fibre connection.

muhahahah.
 
Lol well if I can get a isp selling me a dual shaped acc where it lets my games use fiber and my downloads sat and price them diff some way.
 
Dark Dirty Secrets

Now I wonder ........

IF I purchased the TFR MTUNZINI station.

Erected a little DISH farm up on the ridge at the highest point.

Set up a little uplink and downlink control centre. (I can tap the RAW unedited transmission in MPEG 4 format.)

Connected it to the SEACOM cable , as well as TELKOMS SAFE ( EASSY )

Purchased some transponder space on one of the MANY new Sats with a decicated Southern African footprint.

WHAT do you think the latency would be -- UP and straight DOWN again ?????

Do you think I would be able to provide low latency Internet to everyone with a DSTV dish.

Do you think that this would be affordable ???

Do you think that I would be able to provide "IPTV"

WHERE are all the bright incumbent Telecoms CEO's and other so called experts. ( Thinking up excuses for retaining their greedy bonuses )

May all your smart cars and smart mansions give you undending trouble.


MW
 
nothing going to happen till after 2011, emailed them already

oh and you will have to go via a service partner, any guesses who that will be?
 
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