randyvsatus
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join:2005-03-03
Monument, CO
 ·Qwest.net
| reply to Island Jeff
Re: why doesn't satellite internet compete against cable and dsl
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= Island Jeff  Is the bandwidth really up there? At what cost? So far we've been told by all consumer satellite offerings and experts to date that the bandwidth is simply not up there in sufficient quantity to offer cable- or dsl-like usage ...
Knowing how much satellite bandwidth is available (relative to terrestrial solutions) is not the issue...the issue, as dbirdman says above, is the enormous gap in the cost to provide the bandwidth from a satellite vs a terrestrial source...."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. -dbirdman
Now ya know!
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