"Heard on the Satellite Street"
Here's the latest news from two big satellite internet companies:
Direcway
HNS LLC (Direcway) has announced the "Enterprise" service levels for the DW 7700 product they advertise that will be available in June. The speeds are impressive, but at what cost? From my investigation, none of the Value Added Resellers, a big part of their sales effort, have costs or any more information than the Press Release from HNS on May 2nd. I think it is ambitious, to say the least, that they will have everyone "spooled up" to provide this new equipment & service by June....we'll wait and see. The service levels are here: www.hns.com
Wildblue
The NRTC member coop's will get "first crack" at signing up new Wildblue customers. The rumor on the street is that only customers of a Co-op utility will be sold service until it is more widely available through the two master distributors later in the year. The greatest problem NRTC has right now is getting enough installers trained to handle the nuances of Ka band internet. I'm told the NRTC requires specific training which is slightly different than standard Wildblue training and ONLY NRTC trained installers can do NRTC member installs....sounds a bit strange, but that's at least one NRTC member's story. Another member said that was hogwash.....so who knows?
The training of installers, the somewhat limited supply of Surfbeam Ka band modems and some last minute concerns about the wattage of transmitter needed to provide advertised speeds seem to be dragging things to a slower start than late May-June rollout....we'll just have to wait and see on this developing story.
Wildblue waiting list here: http://www.vsatus.com/page13.htm
Rocky
Direcway
HNS LLC (Direcway) has announced the "Enterprise" service levels for the DW 7700 product they advertise that will be available in June. The speeds are impressive, but at what cost? From my investigation, none of the Value Added Resellers, a big part of their sales effort, have costs or any more information than the Press Release from HNS on May 2nd. I think it is ambitious, to say the least, that they will have everyone "spooled up" to provide this new equipment & service by June....we'll wait and see. The service levels are here: www.hns.com
Wildblue
The NRTC member coop's will get "first crack" at signing up new Wildblue customers. The rumor on the street is that only customers of a Co-op utility will be sold service until it is more widely available through the two master distributors later in the year. The greatest problem NRTC has right now is getting enough installers trained to handle the nuances of Ka band internet. I'm told the NRTC requires specific training which is slightly different than standard Wildblue training and ONLY NRTC trained installers can do NRTC member installs....sounds a bit strange, but that's at least one NRTC member's story. Another member said that was hogwash.....so who knows?
The training of installers, the somewhat limited supply of Surfbeam Ka band modems and some last minute concerns about the wattage of transmitter needed to provide advertised speeds seem to be dragging things to a slower start than late May-June rollout....we'll just have to wait and see on this developing story.
Wildblue waiting list here: http://www.vsatus.com/page13.htm
Rocky
posted by Randy Scott at 4:15 PM
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