wolffer
join:2002-01-31
MS
| ViaSat To Buy WildBlue For $568 Million
NEW YORK -- ViaSat Inc. said Thursday that it will acquire WildBlue Communications Inc., a privately held satellite broadband-service provider, in a cash and stock deal valued at $568 million. ViaSat, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based producer of satellite communication systems, said it expects the transaction to close in its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends April 2
»www.foxbusiness.com/story/market···million/
Wonder what this will do? Improve? Doubtful. |
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grohgreg
Dunno. Ask The Chief
join:2001-07-05
Dawson Springs, KY
| Considering what it cost to build and launch WildBlue1, that sounds too cheap. ViaSat is (was) WB's modem provider. I'm wondering if WB didn't get in too deep, and selling out to ViaSat was their only lifeline left?
Or perhaps Wildblue is retaining ownership of the satellite. Which would mean instead of WB buying modems from ViaSat, ViaSat would be leasing satellite time from Wildblue.
There was a Wildblue/EchoStar deal last month for another Ka-band lease. Is that deal dead now too?
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roddy32
join:2005-12-10
Augusta, KS | I just called my local provider that I get Wild Blue from and they were not even aware of this which did not surprise me. |
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Spice300
Premium
join:2006-01-10
| reply to wolffer
I do not recall the cost of manufacturing and launching Wildblue-1, but I vaguely remember it was less than $500 billion. Since Anik-F2 and AMC-15 are leased there is no sale value in them. Since WB has had more than 4 years to pay down their initial investment, they could have recently achieved profit.
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zalternate
join:2007-02-22
BC
 ·TELUS
| said by Spice300  :I do not recall the cost of manufacturing and launching Wildblue-1, but I vaguely remember it was less than $500 billion . Since Anik-F2 and AMC-15 are leased there is no sale value in them. Since WB has had more than 4 years to pay down their initial investment, they could have recently achieved profit. So thats why the economy collapsed.  It's them 500 billion dollar Internet satellites.
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN | Lol, doh! |
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Spice300
Premium
join:2006-01-10 | reply to wolffer
"Less than" is not the same as "equal to." |
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zalternate
join:2007-02-22
BC
·TELUS
| One of the satellite cost numbers was about 300 million.
But it is going to be interesting with any new bandwidth packages, by WildBlue(later in 2011), that are integrated into the system when the new satellite gets put up, tested and put into service.
Possible Dual FAP policies and people in closed, high demand areas looking to switch as quick as possible, for the chance at being able to stream a lot more videos than they can now.
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micwa
join:2009-01-13
Seminary, MS
 ·WildBlue
| reply to wolffer
Sounds like a good idea.
I am also curious of how the new medium earth orbit satellites (O3b) will turn out (around the same time ViaSat-1 will be [going] up).
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_satell···ellation |
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dbirdman
Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| The biggest problem is your use of the word "will."
The proper comparison would be "how the new medium earth orbit satellites could turn out if they had a snoball's chance in h*ll"
Stricly my opinion of course, but it should be noted that there has never been a satellite launched by any company the year after it was designed.
For that matter, I'm not sure there has ever been a satellite launched in the year that was named when the satellite was proposed!
Many have been more than 5 years behind initial expectations, including Spaceway and WB.
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micwa
join:2009-01-13
Seminary, MS
1 edit | Err I meant to say "low earth orbit".
Well they're saying the 2nd half of 2011.... |
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dbirdman
Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| said by micwa :Err I meant to say "low earth orbit". Well they're saying the 2 half of 2011.... No, you were correct that O3B is MEO. LEO would require hundreds of satellites, which has proven cost-prohibitive even for Bill Gates and his friends who started such a project 10 years ago and then quit when they finally figured out what the real cost was. Teledesic was the name.
LEO would have been the ultimate answer to communications needs worldwide - too bad it didn't happen and may never happen.
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micwa
join:2009-01-13
Seminary, MS
·WildBlue
| From Wiki:
Broadband applications benefit from low-latency communications, so LEO satellite constellations provide an advantage over a geostationary satellite, where minimum theoretical latency is about 125 milliseconds, compared to 1–4 milliseconds for a LEO satellite. A LEO satellite constellation can also provide more system capacity by frequency reuse across its coverage, with spot beam frequency use being analogous to the frequency reuse of cellular radio towers.
That would have the solution right there. However the risks of it getting "hit" by space debris are much higher in LEO, so I've read.
If Bill couldn't do it, then no one can. lol |
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dbirdman
Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| said by micwa :....a geostationary satellite, where minimum theoretical latency is about 125 milliseconds, compared to 1–4 milliseconds for a LEO satellite. Which article was that? Sounds like the author didn't understand what latency is, since one-way, one-leg time is never usable for everything. Satellite latency for any two-way communications, including internet, is a four-leg operation where the theoretical minimum for a Geostationary satellite is about 500ms.
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micwa
join:2009-01-13
Seminary, MS | »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_···ellation |
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