dbirdman
Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| reply to fonzbear2000
Re: why doesn't satellite internet compete against cable and dsl
Because there is no similarity beyond the fact that both satellite TV and satellite internet use satellites. The differences occur because they use them in completely different ways.
A satellite has very limited bandwidth. For a few hundred million dollars you can get the bandwidth that a cable company can buy to a neighborhood for a few thousand dollars.
Satellite TV can use that bandwidth to broadcast to every neighborhood in the country. New subscribers put nearly zero impact on the bandwidth. All the real cost is in buying programming. That makes it very competitive, because cable has to spend those thousands for each and every neighborhood.
Satellite internet uses bandwidth per customer, not per neighborhood or per country. That makes it massively more expensive, per gigabyte, than any other method of internet access. Even if you were to spend a trillion dollars on satellites you couldn't match the available bandwidth to a cable or DSL company.
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