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10th July, 2012 (1 Comment)

Last week saw satellite ISP Tooway Direct become the first UK reseller to adopt Eutelsat’s new range of faster and more flexible 18Mbps capable broadband packages via the KA-SAT spacecraft (here), which is targeted at rural communities. Now several more ISPs have updated their packages but many continue to conceal the usage policy (FAP).

3rd July, 2012 (5 Comments)

Satellite ISP Tooway Direct (SSW), which uses Eutelsat’s KA-SAT spacecraft at 9° East to deliver broadband to almost anywhere in the UK, has revamped its services and launched a new Tooway 18 MAX package that pushes the top download rate up to 18Mbps (6Mbps uploads) alongside FREE hardware and connection.

27th June, 2012 (6 Comments)

A multi-national team of scientists working out of the University of Southern California (USC) have successfully tested a new networking technology that can “twist light” to send data at a staggering speed of up to 2.56Tbps (Terabits per second)! The solution could “potentially” be adapted for use in fibre optic cables or even satellite links.

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8th June, 2012 (0 Comments)

Satellite ISP Bentley Walker has pledged to provide their Tooway (Eutelsat) broadband service with free installation and free activation to several isolated communities in rural Cumbria (England, UK). The move follows a decision by Cable & Wireless Worldwide to cease their wireless internet service in Duddon Valley and Branthwaite.

24th May, 2012 (4 Comments)

Global telecoms giant Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), which is busy trying to sell itself to Vodafone for £1.044bn (here), has warned two rural England (UK) communities in Cumbria (Duddon Valley and Branthwaite) that it will cut their broadband connection by the end of June 2012 because the public subsidy has expired.

21st May, 2012 (3 Comments)

Global satellite operator SES ASTRA has tipped BSkyB (Sky Broadband) to be one of the first in the world to deploy the next generation of Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) services (aka – 3840×2160 pixels or “4K” / 7680×4320 pixels or “8K“) into homes, possibly by 2015, which could call into question the future competitiveness of over-the-top (OTT) style broadband TV (IPTV).

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12th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK Space Agency, an executive agency for the governments Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has awarded £1.1 Million from its new grant funding of £6 Million to broadband satellite operator Avanti Communications.

12th March, 2012 (0 Comments)

Worldwide satellite operator SES (ASTRA) has renamed its internet service subsidiary ASTRA Broadband Services and their familiar ASTRA2Connect product to SES Broadband Services and SES Broadband respectively. The new names are said to be “in line with SES’ new Corporate Identity“.

10th March, 2012 (4 Comments)

Welshpool-based ISP Exwavia, which uses wireless (WiFi) technology to deliver broadband internet access speeds of up to 14Mbps (Megabits per second) into isolated parts of rural Wales (UK), has warned that farmers could soon be hit by a new wave of fines and penalties if they do not start using the governments related online services (e.g. Taxation, Electronic Sheep Database etc.).

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7th March, 2012 (3 Comments)

The communications regulator, Ofcom UK, has quitely published a new “small-scale report” that investigated the quality of experience and user satisfaction when using broadband Satellite ISP services for applications such as online video gaming (multiplayer), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), video/audio streaming and Voice-over-IP (VoIP).

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