I'm tempted to pick your last post apart piece-by-piece.
Then I reread your first line, second sentence. Basically it confirms everything we've been saying about you. You are a lifelong salesman, 100% committed and passionate about whatever product you are currently selling. This keeps you from having an objective view about your own products, or others.
I will answer the question you ask of us:
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Customer satisfaction. If the 2-Way systems were as great as you and birdman have been going on and on and on about, why hasn't it mirrored typical broadband penetration rates of 30% of the 20 Million un-served market?
You misrepresent our position completely. "Great as we say it is?" Where do we say it is "Great?"
You can find both of us saying time and again in these forums that satellite (all types) is the solution of last resort. It is slow, expensive, and capped. That triple-whammy will always keep it from getting the kind of market penetration that cheap DSL can get.
It is, however the correct way to go IF you want an always-on connection in remote areas, or if you are mobile as I am about half the time. Even in the latter case air cards make more sense for a significant percentage of mobile users.
The winning position for 2-way, in our view, is when you follow the subject of this thread: one-way vs two-way satellite systems. Period.
I would rank my choice for connection this way, from worst to best:
dialup
one-way satellite
two-way consumer satellite
two-way commercial satellite
air card
terrestrial wireless
dsl
cable
fios
I left out such things as ISDN and commercial solutions ranging from T-1 to DS-3 - if money is no object you could inject ISDN between one-way and two-way, T-1 between terrestrial wireless and dsl, and T-3 and DS3 at the top of the heap. I also didn't include WiFi at public or private locations, which will vary for value depending on which of the above is the backhaul.
I personally regularly use (and pay for) 6 of the options on that extended list, and in any particular place I use whatever option(s) make the most sense.
I have trouble imagining any situation in which one-way is superior to two-way in the 48 states. The situation in Europe is different because they charge so much for two-way, although there are many there who still choose to pay it.
It is burned into my memory that you actually suggested one-way as a viable solution for mobile first responders to disasters! That is carrying the "100% committed and passionate" about as far over the line as you could possibly go!