Another one bites the dust.......

Another satellite internet provider has apparently shut down all operations...not a giant....just a giant "wannabe" by the name of dataBahn. They sold franchises for purported "exclusive" territories for what originally was supposed to be ka band Surfbeam through Wildblue Communications. These franchises sold for around $30,000 ea. The people who took them up on this offer are very angry right about now. Wildblue never agreed to provide them service and dataBahn never provided the Dealers with the "millions" in advertising they promised during the sales pitch, so I'm told by more than one angry dealer.

What eventually happened is that dataBahn struck a deal with the ku band Surfbeam provider Unasat, headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. That relationship ended with a lawsuit about 12 months later. dataBahn sued and quickly repointed all their customers to SES Americom's ku Surfbeam service this summer. I've been told by former Dealers they forgot one detail.......to pay for the bandwidth. SES pulled the plug last week.

The brash CEO and founder of dataBahn, Ted Lindsley, has been quiet since the provider went dark. Big plans..... Seasoned veterans knew he was skating on thin ice from the get-go.