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Satellite News · 13-07-10, 10:00 AM

The satellite broadband provider, Avanti Communications Group, has raised £70 million from investors so it can begin the process of launching its first satellite into orbit. The funds were raised by the sale of shares at 430p each. Not all of the money will go towards the investment in the satellite, as part of the funds [...]

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bruce_ica · 03-01-11, 12:10 AM

niceone what about card scard

TheCoder · 03-01-11, 02:27 PM

Still a little bit dubious over satellite broadband and its limitations so i'm not sure this will find a target market for the relatively high costs it will incur. Users will have a fairly large initial outlay for the dish/receiver etc and then suffer an effectively second rate service due to the lack of real-time response (72,000km round trip adds 250mS delay to any data packet) making the system uselss for such as gaming and very unstisfactory for even simple stuff like skype etc (where the delay would by >500mS).

It would be ok for browsing/download etc (although I bet the cost per Gb downloaded will be relatively high in comparison to ground connected internet) and I cant imagine the speeds being particularly high in comparison to cable etc.

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Satellite News Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,352 Thanks: 0 Thanked 15 Times in 13 Posts	Avanti raises £70m for satellite broadband The satellite broadband provider, Avanti Communications Group, has raised £70 million from investors so it can begin the process of launching its first satellite into orbit. The funds were raised by the sale of shares at 430p each. Not all of the money will go towards the investment in the satellite, as part of the funds [...] More: Avanti raises £70m for satellite broadband

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TheCoder Underground Crew Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Undrground Posts: 2,149 Thanks: 15 Thanked 1,691 Times in 933 Posts	Re: Avanti raises £70m for satellite broadband Still a little bit dubious over satellite broadband and its limitations so i'm not sure this will find a target market for the relatively high costs it will incur. Users will have a fairly large initial outlay for the dish/receiver etc and then suffer an effectively second rate service due to the lack of real-time response (72,000km round trip adds 250mS delay to any data packet) making the system uselss for such as gaming and very unstisfactory for even simple stuff like skype etc (where the delay would by >500mS). It would be ok for browsing/download etc (although I bet the cost per Gb downloaded will be relatively high in comparison to ground connected internet) and I cant imagine the speeds being particularly high in comparison to cable etc.