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Re: ViaSat-1: Transforming Satellite Broadband said by DrStrangeLove_ :"The new satellite would be able to offer broadband (depending on the speeds) to between 1.5 million and 2 million rural Americans. The current satellite can handle about 750,000 users and serves about 400,000 WildBlue subscribers." » gigaom.com/2009/04/29/wildblue-l···s-funds/
Remembering that with the Anik F2 is that Xplornet(the main reseller for Telesat) in Canada also uses it with very roughly a minimum 60,000 users(No numbers can be found exactly). And that the Anik F2 satellite 750,000(edit: faulty number. It is Anik F2 and WildBlue 1 combined) user number, the number is derived from 100% basic speeds connections and not any higher speed packages. And may not account for 100% of users to be online at the same time(I have not looked up the numbers is a couple of years).
And as far as I know, the new bird(viasat1) was already ordered a couple of years ago By Telesat(a 20% owner of WildBlue). |
| Heres some updated information on WildBlue satellite users capacity.
»www.wildblue.com/company/doPress···aseID=18
WildBlue1 information. So wildBlues user capacity is about 750,000 users total. Also keep in mind that WildBlue is now leasing some KA band from EchoStar. »www.foxbusiness.com/story/market···chostar/
»www.spacemart.com/reports/Wildbl···999.html
WildBlue-1 will allow WildBlue to more than triple its customer capacity, making high-speed Internet service available to more than 750,000 rural consumers throughout the continental United States. WildBlue expects that the additional capacity accessible on WildBlue-1 will be available to all areas of the contiguous United States by the second quarter of 2007. WildBlue will also continue to utilize its capacity on Anik F2, alongside WildBlue-1.
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