First broadband delivery dedicated satellite to launch

[pctech]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11846237

[DorsetBoy]

 And here Mitch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11829019

I wonder what happens when you get heavy rain storms, the signal dies for satellite TV so presumably the same for this?

[pctech]

Fit an RDB*?


*Ruddy Big Dish

[Glenn]

What will the latency be like?

[pctech]

Pass

[pctech]

Think we've been down this road before, anyone remember Teledesic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic

[Bill]

What will the latency be like?

If it's geostationary, 475msec minimum, plus whatever the ground links put in.

Not good, but if you're 20 miles from the nearest exchange with not enough users to warrant a fibre being laid... IOW, it's better than nothing!

[klipp]

Can't be any worse than BT.  Bring it on.

[Rik]

Only if it slips out of orbit.

[pctech]

Link to company that will be operating the service http://www.avantiplc.com/