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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: Bowdon on October 17, 2016, 10:54:43 AM
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Europasat Interview – Broadband USO is “unfeasible” Without Satellite (http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/10/europasat-interview-broadband-uso-unfeasible-without-satellite.html)
The CEO of UK ISP Europasat (Satellite Solutions Worldwide), Andrew Walwyn, has told ISPreview.co.uk in our latest interview that the Government’s plan to introduce a 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband “cannot be satisfied” without subsidised Satellite technology.
As an ISP Europasat, which has its HQ in the United Kingdom and is listed on the London AIM market, was first founded in 2008 and has since become the largest pan-European Satellite broadband distributor with customers in 30 countries (mostly European markets); they’ve also just become the biggest one in Britain.
Unlike most such providers, Europasat offers a selection of packages using three physically separate Satellite platforms (spacecraft in orbit around the Earth) from Avanti, SES and Tooway (Eutelsat). However much of their recent growth has been built through the acquisition of rivals, such as the move to gobble Avonline for £10m.
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Please god, no.
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I think it's inevitable. The various programmes seem to only look at the "speed" of the potential service, whether to compare with the proposed 10meg USO or the 30meg that Scotland defines as "superfast". Satellite is a get out of jail card that allows them to claim availability of these services.
The downsides of satellite, high cost, poor latency, unreliability, low real-world thoughput or around 1/3 of the headline speed, and poor monthly data allowance all become irrelevant. As it happens our next door neighbour took out one of these satellite services, but it's proved so unreliable and slower than their existing DSL so they're going to drop it at the end of the 12 month contract.
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Well if satellite is "available" then there's nothing at all to do, job done already, and the politicians can all go home satisfied with themselves.
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weaver a friend of mine who has a aweful adsl line uses satellite for downloads and he is happy with it, whilst not mega fast and stable it is still a different league to his 3mbit adsl line.