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High Speed Internet Satellite
Of these two, StarBand is a service brand of Spacenet Inc. The service is a two-way, always-on, broadband high-speed satellite Internet service that is available for residential, telecommuter and small business customers throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and several Caribbean and Central American countries. Spacenet is a provider of high-performance satellite and hybrid terrestrial networking solutions for business, government and small business customers in the United States and worldwide. Spacenet itself is a subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (listed at Nasdaq under the symbol GILT). HughesNet, on the other hand, is the #1 satellite internet choice in the U.S. for broadband by satellite. To access the satellite broadband service, you need to be located in the contigous US with a clear view of the southern sky, Alaska and Hawaii excluded. The reported download speeds for the service range from 728 kbps up to 2.5 Mbps. |