The news is out, ViaSat’s new satellite offering is going to be called Exede Internet Service. The news was announced at the CES show this past week in Las Vegas and is drawing a great deal of attention across the internet world. What is this new service you might ask and why is it so important to the technology industry? Well, the satellite internet industry in the past has, for the most part, only focused on people residing in rural and remote areas. This type of service has only been able to provide an alternative to dial-up. However, the Exede Internet Service is operating with one of the largest commercial satellites ever launched into space. In fact, the satellite is actually larger than all other Ka band satellites combined.
Ka band is simply one of the primary two types of satellite technologies available today. The other is called Ku band, however, Ka band is the best and most recent technology. This satellite service will finally provide people in remote areas the ability to get extremely fast internet service at an extremely affordable rate. If the government continues to offer its rural recovery program with this new service this will likely be an unbelievable deal for people living way out in the country. Finally, rural Americans will be able to do pretty much anything they want to on the web. They may still be a little limited with online gaming, but VoIP, downloading music (fast), and so much more will finally be fair game. It is really no doubt that this new Exede Satellite is getting so much attention. It may possibly lead to the biggest change we have seen in this industry for years.
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Other than the speed increase the new plans are worse than existing plans. The current top of the line plan is 1.5mb download speed. The new “equivalent” plan price wise is 12mb download speed but the Data Allowance has been reduced from a combined download/upload of 22gb to 15gb. All the new plans do is allow you to reach you limits faster. You will still need to stick you internet usage web browsing, emails and other low data info. You’ll have the ability to stream a video but you’ll bump up against the lower limit quickly, the plans are basically set up to suck you into paying an extra $8 per gb overage charge.
Hi Craig, thank you for letting us know your thoughts. There are actually currently no extra charges for going over your data limit. If someone was to exceed their data limit they would most likely just be slowed down to a slower speed, but would not incur any extra charges. It is likely that most people are going to download data a lot more than they will upload data. The new plans are built to reflect that type of usage. The significant advantage of the new service is its increase in speed though. There is currently no other satellite internet service on the market that can come close to competing with this service.