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Satellite outfit ViaSat is forming a €68m (£60m) public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), which among other things is intended to fund ground stations for home broadband speeds of 100Mbps. The programme will focus on developing fixed and mobile terminals to allow its ViaSat-3 satellites to provide a …

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  1. Mage Silver badge
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    bringing speeds of 100Mbps

    Ah, copy & paste of PR.

    Bringing speeds UP TO 100Mbps, at maybe 3AM.

    Also no VPN

    High Latency

    No public IP

    Probably daily, weekly Caps.

    It's Internet by Satellite. Can be better or worse than Mobile Internet. It's not Broadband.

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    1. Bronek Kozicki
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      Re: bringing speeds of 100Mbps

      Well, something like this might get rid of latency. Can't be sure about caps or speed, since this is early planning stages. It is obviously large technological challenge, also very expensive (although I can think of one way this could paid off). The link above is from an this article at Ars Technica.

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