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| 06.01.2013 |
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Satellite Broadband: Size of Satellite Just One Part of the Equation
At SATELLITE 2013, Hughes announced the new Jupiter 2/EchoStar XIX satellite. This satellite will be built by Space Systems/Loral on the SSL 1300 bus and will have 50 percent more capacity than its predecessors Jupiter I/EchoStar XVII and than ViaSat-1, both...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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FCC Report Marks Key Breakthrough for Satellite Broadband
In February, the FCC released its third Measuring Broadband America report (MBA report). While previous MBA reports have examined fiber, cable, and DSL connections, this latest report is the first to give satellite broadband the same coverage. According to...
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| 03.01.2013 |
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Launch Market on Cusp of Change
With the success of SpaceX’s Falcon 9, it seems like the age of truly commercial space launch has arrived. But what exactly is a commercial launch? When I worked with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space...
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| 02.01.2013 |
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Maritime Becomes Prime Time for Satellite Companies
It’s always fun to look in my inbox and see what is supposed to be hot in the satellite world. At one point, for example, 3-D video was going to be the next big thing in satellite video distribution, calling for vast amounts of profitable new bandwidth...
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| 12.01.2012 |
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An Epic Change: How New Satellites Could Change the Demand for Satellite Based Services
In my last column, I discussed how the cost of providing satellite broadband had fallen to the point where it was thinkable for Dish Network to deploy it broadly to enable greater interactivity for their video offerings. Soon after, I got an unrelated...
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| 10.01.2012 |
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New Phase for Satellite Broadband in United States
Bloomberg has reported that Dish Network will be offering satellite broadband to its customers sometime this fall. This offering will use EchoStar 17 (previously known as Hughes Network Systems’ Jupiter) to provide broadband service to up to two million...
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| 08.01.2012 |
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What Does it Mean To Be a “Satellite” Company?
I was thinking about the space industry the other day and it occurred to me that things are more complex than they once were. It is not clear to me exactly what we mean when we speak about the satellite industry in the second decade of the 21st century. There...
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| 06.01.2012 |
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ViaSat’s Newsgathering Service Hints at New Direction for Ka-Band Satellites
One of the interesting things about satellite broadband providers like WildBlue or HughesNet, has been the way in which they have formed their very own technological and market niche. As broadband providers have transitioned from leased Ku-band capacity to...
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| 04.01.2012 |
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Token Offer Could Prove Hit for Broadband Subscribers
Satellite broadband has always suffered from greater bandwidth limitations than terrestrial alternatives. Even with the new generation of satellites, such as ViaSat’s ViaSat-1 and Hughes Network System’s Jupiter, this remains an issue. These...
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| 02.01.2012 |
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LightSquared Fights Against The Tide as Opposition Mounts
LightSquared’s plans to deploy a terrestrial LTE network using L-band satellite frequencies was dealt a serious blow by reports that government testing found that its proposed LTE service caused significant interference with around 75 percent of...
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| 12.01.2011 |
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Iridium Changes the Game
I have always liked Iridium, at least the new Iridium that followed the bankruptcy of the original, mobile phone-focused Iridium. One of the things that I have liked most about Iridium is the way the operator established an ecosystem in which different...
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| 10.01.2011 |
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The Slow Death of DSL
Vodafone Germany wants to migrate its broadband DSL subscribers to its own LTE wireless network because it is paying Deutsche Telekom 500 million euros ($719.18 million) annually for the use of its wired network. According to a recent news story, the planned...
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| 08.01.2011 |
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The Split Personality of Satellite Navigation
According to the Satellite Industry Association’s 2011 State of the Satellite Industry Report, satellite equipment sales are up and consumer GPS hardware is singled out as one of the drivers. What the SIA does not mention is that this commercial...
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| 06.01.2011 |
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The Great (Broadband) Leap Forward
The world of satellite broadband is about to see the results of a revolution in satellite capacity. In Europe, Ka-Sat is getting ready to enter service. In North America, ViaSat-1 is expected to be launched before the end of 2011, and the similar Hughes...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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Consumer Broadband Sector Strengthened By New Owners
Once again a North American satellite broadband provider has a new owner. Following WildBlue’s acquisition by ViaSat, Hughes Network Systems is being purchased by EchoStar. Is it possible that broadband companies just can’t make it on their own...
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| 02.01.2011 |
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The Success of Satellite Radio
Satellite radio (specifically Sirius and XM) was created with the idea that such a service could offer more specialized programming than conventional terrestrial radio. A broader range of more specialized content would gain a profitable audience by...
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| 12.01.2010 |
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EchoStar’s Interest in TerreStar May Involve Future of Video
As I write this, the biggest news in the mobile satellite world is TerreStar’s bankruptcy. On the long road to the deployment of TerreStar’s ATC network, TerreStar has hit another bump. Only time will tell what will happen when TerreStar emerges...
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| 10.01.2010 |
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Inmarsat Lays Down Personal Marker – Will Others Follow?
In this column my focus largely has been satellite services at the consumer level. There is another way to look at this, however, and I was reminded by the recent announcement of big Ka-band plans for Inmarsat. Personal satellite services also invoke images...
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| 08.01.2010 |
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Is ATC a Wise Investment?
Ever since the FCC opened the door to the use of satellite spectrum for terrestrial networks, it has seemed like a case of the tail waging the dog. It is nearly impossible to construct a scenario in which a major portion of the users of an ATC (ancillary...
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| 06.01.2010 |
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Broadband Blooms
Years ago, I did a study on terrestrial versus satellite broadband. At the time, not so long after the failure of initiatives such as Teledesic, it was easy to be negative about satellite broadband. Satellite broadband was slower and more expensive than...
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