audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI
| faster POS sales
The founding customer base for Hughes is Point of Sales transactions processing. Look at the roof of Gas stations, large chain stores for the dish. Residential is a relatively new thing for them. This means that during busy times of the day the extra capacity will go to POS processing. And I know you have swiped the card and experienced a delay of 30 or more seconds for the transaction to complete. |
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manhole
join:2000-09-12
Modesto, CA
clubs: | Yes, exactly. I know one of their big customers is the California Lottery. Most stores that sell lottery tickets here in California use Hughes as their connection. That is a pretty large customer base just from that. |
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tdba
@belgacom.be
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mm, do not agree with that entirely. Their consumer base is growing 15.000 a month, and believe me, the B2B business isn't growing that much (less than 10% actually in NA). Agree, Spaceway certainly will bring new applications to the B2B arena, but the consumer business is certainly not playground for Hughes. |
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wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK
 ·Future Nine Corpor..
·Teliax VOIP
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to audiog
said by audiog  :And I know you have swiped the card and experienced a delay of 30 or more seconds for the transaction to complete. Generally, although not always, delays like that are due to the establishment using analog dial up to process cards, rather than a leased line or VSAT. Even though they fix the terminals and the modem pools at 1200bps (iirc) to speed connection times, it still takes quite a while.
Personally, I prefer stores that use either leased line or ISDN dialup, so the authorization takes 1-5 seconds. |
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PolarBear
The asshole formerly known as aaron8301
join:2005-01-03
Riverside, WA | reply to manhole
Same in Washington, and I assume most states. The convenience store I once worked at had one HN dish for lottery, and another for POS transactions. |
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SBS
@cox.net | reply to wierdo
90% of the pay at the pump transactions in the US is VSAT based. It never takes me more than 3-4 seconds. |
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