"Internet Service Provider"
The Wikipedia link provides a simple explanation"
"An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned. "
There are many ways to provide service. Wireless, cable, etc. One way to provide it is via "Satellite Internet Service" with a Wikipedia explanation at the link.
AT&T is rumored to buy DirectTV for $50 billion.
"It would be banking on a “quadruple-play” bundle of mobile, fixed-line, broadband and TV to bring growth back to DirecTV’s business,
as well as help convince DirecTV customers to switch to AT&T for
mobile, as the bundled packages would likely offer competitive pricing."
Looks like a play by AT&T to corner the market!
ViaSat-1: Wikipedia Link:
"ViaSat-1 is a communications satellite owned by ViaSat. Launched October 19, 2011 aboard a Proton rocket, it holds the Guinness record
for the world's highest capacity communications satellite with a total
capacity in excess of 140 Gbit/s, more than all the satellites covering
North America combined, at the time of its launch.[2]
ViaSat-1 is capable of two-way communications with small dish
antennas at higher speeds and a lower cost-per-bit than any satellite
before.[citation needed]
The satellite will be positioned at 115.1 degrees West longitude,
with 72 Ka-band spot beams; 63 over the U.S. (Eastern and Western
states, Alaska and Hawaii), and nine over Canada.
The Canadian beams are owned by satellite operator Telesat
and will be used for the Xplornet broadband service to consumers in
rural Canada. The US beams will provide fast Internet access called
ExedeSM, ViaSat's satellite Internet service.[3]
ViaSat-1 is part of a new satellite system architecture created by
ViaSat Inc. The objective is to create a better satellite broadband user
experience,[4] making satellite competitive with DSL and wireless broadband alternatives for the first time.[5]"
"The Russian Space Program gets a $52 Billion Dollar Boost" This link to the Moscow Times story.
Big Bucks.
Big Plan
Big Payoff!
Good old AT&T. Known for monopoly. Good old American Capitalism. Known for dominating markets in a "Free Market" system that is not really a free market. A free market would result in the lowest cost provider of the best service.
The World Wide Web is a World Wide Web. Open to any and all that would operate as Internet Service Providers.
What is Russia or China state/private enterprise put up a satellite based ISP that offered to anyone in the world access to the Internet to anyone, anywhere at an amazing cheap price and faster speed than anyone else like AT&T could offer.
An Internet Service Provider operating in a world wide market open to anyone that wants to play in accordance with the cheapest price and best service rules.
I would switch to that provider in a heartbeat. I would not care in the least that my monthly payment for faster service at half the price went to Russia or China.
But...but...but...What if Russia or China was storing and reading everything that I passed over their ISP system?????? What if they sold their service with a "nuclear power" type open international inspection monitoring system that assured compliance with safe guard that they were not doing something dangerously analogous to building "atom bombs" with surveillance with their ISP system???
I would not only sign up for their service but encourage all my friends to sign up as well.
Go Russia. Go China. Go anybody that would put up a Satellite ISP system that anyone and everyone in the world could subscribe to directly. They would become the Carlos Slim of the Internet Service Providers.
Let the Free Market worldwide competition for Internet Service Provider begin.
Best fastest at cheapest price wins all.
Might Russia's investment in a space program be the plan to destroy NSA internet surveillance? What better way to destroy it than by providing a faster, better, surveillance free ISP to the world?
Conspiracy Theory?
Elegant Plan?
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