European Satellite To Bring Broadband To Isolated Areas
The new satellite is called Ka-Sat (artist’s conception, right), and although bandwidth and capacity aren’t mentioned, one can only imagine the kind of throughput that thing will have to maintain to serve so many users. I think we’re only going to see more of these — wired internet is great and high-speed, but it’s not cost-effective for the vast swaths of the world where there’s barely electricity.
By the way, isn’t it amazing that private companies are launching satellites into space in order that millions of people might have broadband internet? This is the future, people.