Europe Gets Pay-As-You-Go Satellite Broadband 58
judgecorp writes "Europe is set to get pay-as-you-go high speed satellite broadband from Avanti's Ka-band HYLAS1 satellite in the 26.5 — 40GHz range. Avanti says satellite broadband services have improved massively including a far better uplink than used to be available, though the round-trip latency can't be improved much." Conspicuously missing: the actual price.
Sounds like just the ticket (Score:5, Interesting)
for Navy buckets operating out of normal, unrestricted hardline/line-of-sight microwave/wifi ranges.
NATO have already approved Avanti satellite uplinks for operational use [avantiplc.com].
LEO or GEO (Score:2, Interesting)
Where are the satellites, LEO or GEO ?
I'm guessing GEO so ping times sux
(Oh I spose I should clarify - LEO = Low Earth orbit - no more that a couple of hundred miles up. GEO = Geostationary - up at 25000 miles so it stays in the sameplace relative to the ground.)