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If you’re on the wrong side of the digital divide in the UK, you might be feeling a little left behind by communications companies and the government. You shouldn’t give up on broadband just yet however as there are solutions available that don’t involve waiting for years for the government to sort themselves out, but it does come at a cost.
That solution is Satellite Broadband. Once considered a poor choice by almost everyone – including us, we admit – due to its expensive setup, high bandwidth costs, bad latency and unreliable performance. However, the broadband terrain is changing quickly and for some people who have little other option, satellite is slowly becoming a more appealing option, if you can afford it.
Avanti is a UK based satellite broadband company that has been providing satellite access across Europe for years, but the company will soon be launching a brand new satellite which will reduce costs of the services while making them faster at the same time. The new satellite will be able to offer some impressive speeds and while it won’t totally reduce some of the problems of the service like the latency, it could well be an option for those excluded from traditional methods of broadband.
During an interview with Top 10 Broadband, a spokeman from Avanti commented although there’s a very high price for set up of the services this cost may be reduced when more and more people taking up the service. With initial setup currently suggest at around £400, Avanti pointed towards US satellite broadband provider Wild Blue who have been able to reduce their own costs thank to increased take up. Avanti will cover over double the amount of potential customers as Wild Blue, so we could see more sensible prices available soon.
Some customers in Scotland have also been able to take advantage of government subsidies to reduce the cost and the British government may well adopt a similar method when the full Digital Britain report is released this month.
Avanti also promise broadband caps of around 5GB a month, a similar amount of data allowance that you might find in a mobile broadband contract. Obviously this isn’t enough for heavy downloaders but if you live in a remote enough area to consider satellite the most important consideration is having a connection rather than a lot of download bandwidth.
Avanti haven’t announced proper initial prices of monthly costs for the service yet, but it’s clear the satellite broadband is finally taking off. If you can get any other type of cheap broadband service in your area it’ll probably be far cheaper and more reliable than the satellite option. If not, satellite might be something to consider, especially if Avanti make good on reducing installation charges when more people take up the service.
Avanti have recently been given funding from the European Space Agency to research ‘Hercules’, a satellite that would be capable of speeds of up to 50 Mbps.
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