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EchoStar Provides Transponder Service for SkyWay Broadband

This is big news. Huge news. Incredible news! Credibility in the industry. A multi-year, multi-transponder lease! More bandwidth than we know what to do with. OK we KNOW what to do with it but after so many years developing and engineering the most stable (and affordable) rural broadband solution, its nice to have the support and relationship with a company such as EchoStar, who already have 13 million mostly rural relationships on the Dish Network side. Get ready rural America (and beyond) our retail partner shored up the right satellite capacity now its time get yourselves connected!Regards,

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Will Provide Ku-Band Satellite Bandwidth for High Speed Internet Service

By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 9/29/2008 1:39:00 PM MT

EchoStar has done a deal to provide transponder service to support SkyWay USA’s satellite broadband Internet service, officials said Monday.

Through the agreement, EchoStar will provide SkyWay USA with domestic Ku-band satellite bandwidth.

“We are pleased to enter into this agreement with SkyWay USA to provide them with critical bandwidth to support their rural satellite internet solution,” Dean Olmstead, president of EchoStar Satellite Services, said in a prepared statement. “With EchoStar’s U.S. fleet of powerful Ku and Ka-band satellites, we were able to provide an immediate solution to help SkyWay USA expand its customer base.”

EchoStar’s capacity will be used by SkyWay USA to provide high-speed satellite Internet services to rural America. EchoStar represents a significant source of Ku-band and Ka-band satellite capacity together with satellite-related products and uplink support services.

“We are very excited about our multi-transponder, long-term agreement with EchoStar,” SkyWay USA CEO Dwayne Hay said in a prepared statement. “Our agreement with this strategic partner gives SkyWay the green light to rapidly deploy our hybrid satellite internet platform while not being concerned about satellite capacity for the next several years.”

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INSIGHT - NSR — Avoiding A Repeat Of History

by Patrick French

Early this year, Eutelsat made a critical announcement that was somewhat overshadowed by its news from a week earlier that the Company had ordered KA-SAT, a next generation spot beam Ka-band satellite for its Tooway satellite broadband service. The January 15th press release detailed Eutelsat’s new agreement with Swisscom, which had recently won a tender from the Swiss Ministry for Telecommunications to provide universal broadband services to all residential Swiss customers, regardless of where they live. Following a detailed assessment of different technologies to provide broadband services to households beyond the reach of terrestrial broadband services, Swisscom settled on the Tooway satellite broadband product as the best service to meet its needs.

The same day, SES Astra reported that it had signed new French and Italian distributors for its ASTRA2Connect satellite broadband product. In the same press release, SES Astra stated that it had commitments as of that date for more than 200,000 consumer terminals to be installed in three to five years, which equated to future revenues amounting to 165 million euros. This was followed by a key contract with Deutsche Telekom announced in early April and other distribution agreements for Belgium, the Netherlands, and again France, that have all certainly added further to the consumer terminal and revenue commitments for the ASTRA2Connect product.

At last report, ASTRA2Connect was available in 10 European countries from 11 different distributors, while 12 distributors were making Eutelsat’s Tooway service (Ka-band and Ku-band versions) available in 14 European countries. In NSR’s view, establishing strong distribution channels is essential to the development of the consumer-class single site satellite broadband market. However, this is a real challenge, given the fragmented nature of the European market and
difficulties in obtaining economies of scale for individual distributors.

There are parallels to the U.S. single site satellite broadband market where there are a few large distributors, but most of the distributors are small. In the U.S market there are literally hundreds of individual distributors and resellers compared to less than 30 in all of Europe. Distributors in the U.S. market can benefit from nationwide and regional marketing campaigns conducted by the major satellite broadband service providers. Conducting pan-European marketing campaigns is much more difficult, and expensive, due to language differences and the limited (typically national) reach of many of the traditional media channels such as television, radio, and print advertising.

Still, NSR considers the agreements with Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom as critical to the success of the European satellite broadband market. While most of the current distributors of ASTRA2Connect and Tooway are small, tier 2 or tier 3 ISPs, Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom are major PTTs and the largest ISPs in their respective countries. For other major tier 1 ISPs in Europe, the decision by DT and Swisscom to sign distribution agreements for consumer-class single site satellite broadband services adds substantial credibility to the respective satellite broadband product lines.

In particular, Swisscom’s careful evaluation of several technical options to meet its universal service agreement and their decision to settle on satellite as the best option paints satellite broadband in a particularly positive light. In Germany, SES Astra signed on DT despite already having three other distribution agreements in that country. While NSR would guess that the initial reaction of the original German ASTRA2Connect distributors to the Deutsche Telekom announcement was chagrin at best, the simple fact is that DT’s active participation in the satellite broadband market in Germany will raise awareness of the satellite service and probably aid all distribution players in the end.

A short history lesson on the single site satellite broadband market must be undertaken in order to sound a note of caution. In 2002, both Tiscali and BT made major waves in the satellite industry when they introduced two-way satellite broadband Internet access services targeted at the consumer market. The companies already had one-way satellite offers in circulation, and their two-way products were heralded by many inside and outside of the satellite sector as a major turning point.

Unfortunately, an “anomaly” occurred during the launch of these services and the BT and Tiscali two-way single site satellite broadband services never made it into orbit. A major issue at the time was the price of the two-way satellite broadband offers. For example, the entry level BT product was priced at 59.99 pounds excluding VAT per month for a 500/150 Kbps service, and equipment and installation was another 899 pounds, excluding VAT. Various government subsidies were available to help underwrite the cost of the BT equipment, but still the two-way satellite service was priced well above aDSL services at a time when a 500 Kbps “Broadband Basic” aDSL package could be obtained for 17.99 pounds.

More insidious and detrimental to two-way satellite broadband services was the fact that companies such as BT and Tiscali never truly embraced the product. In hindsight, it appears BT and Tiscali agreed to offer two-way satellite services in order to tell consumers, and as importantly regulators, that “yes, we can offer broadband to anyone anywhere.”

In reality, anyone trying to sign up for the satellite broadband services faced major hurdles in terms of wait times for the equipment and were often encouraged to be put on waiting lists for aDSL services. In effect, the companies were delaying satellite installs in many areas in order to pool together enough potential subscribers so as to justify further rollouts of their DSL services, which at the end of the day were much more lucrative for the service provider than the satellite product. The net result was that two-way satellite services fell flat. By 2005, neither BT nor Tiscali were offering satellite products.

In retrospect, it is easy for the satellite industry today to dismiss this period as part of the “learning curve” and to claim that the latest generation of single site satellite broadband services are now priced (both for plans and equipment) at a level that is much more acceptable for consumer services. Further, it will be claimed, and not without justification, that major European ISPs have finally come to realize that aDSL is not the “be-all” and “end-all” of broadband services. Satellite, as well as terrestrial wireless, each have a proper niche to fill in the overall broadband market.

The last statement is especially true as governments have started to view broadband services as an essential domestic utility, just like electricity or telephone services, and have begun to oblige service providers to offer competitively priced broadband services to every household, no matter where they are located.

There are lessons to be learned from the early failed efforts to introduce satellite broadband services into Europe. Most important in NSR’s view is ensuring that the cost benefits for the distributors of offering a satellite broadband service are, and remain in line with, their overall business objectives (i.e., it has to be a win for the satellite operator and a win for the distributor). This is especially important when looking toward the future and ensuring satellite remains the most profitable way for an ISP to deliver services to rural clients.



Today’s satellite broadband offers appear to meet these criteria, but as Internet usages changes and the average Internet user expects to obtain ever more content from the Internet, satellite broadband services

must be able to keep ahead of the curve. These services must continue to be profitable for distributors, even when average monthly downloading of content from the Internet triples or quadruples over the coming four to five years. This clearly underscores the decision to move to spot-beam satellites that dramatically increase potential throughput at price points well below what can be obtained on today’s typical television broadcasting satellite.

The risk remains that the crossover point where satellite becomes the best solution for serving rural populations will be difficult to find and, just as importantly, a moving target in the future. The industry has its work cut out and will constantly need to demonstrate to distributors its relevance as a product today as well as its relevance as a product for many years to come. Otherwise, major tier 1 distributors will do just as they did in the past — gravitate quickly away from two-way satellite broadband services, should they fail to meet internal rate of return objectives.

NSR remains positive that the European two-way satellite broadband players are on the right track, even if the main players might be taking somewhat different approaches. There is more than one road that leads to Rome, after all. Should the challenges that remain in the future be successfully overcome, NSR has conservatively predicted in its recent Broadband Satellite Markets 7th Edition study that service and customer premises equipment (CPE) revenues could reach nearly US$800 in Europe by the end of 2017. Success, after all, is as much hard work as it is remembering to learn your history lessons.

Article Information was extracted from NSR’s Broadband Satellite Markets, 7th Edition, report

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About the author



Patrick French joined Northern Sky Research in September 2003 and has since authored numerous studies, the most recent being the Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 2nd. Edition and Broadband Satellite Markets 5th. Edition. He has sought to expand NSR’s coverage of the satellite industry into areas such commercial satellite supply and demand modeling, video distribution and contribution, DTH, telephony and narrowband VSAT networks. In addition, he has undertaken client specific projects in diverse satellite applications and intends to broaden NSR coverage of the European satellite industry.

From 1990 to 1999, Patrick was a staff member of the International Space University (ISU), first in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then six years at ISU’s Central Campus located in Strasbourg, France. He held numerous positions within ISU organizing conferences, short courses, and workshops. In parallel, he was responsible for managing the development of the new ISU Central Campus facilities that were completed in mid-2003. Following his work at ISU, Patrick joined Frost & Sullivan, where he rapidly advanced to the position of Strategic Analyst for the Satellite Communications group. While at Frost & Sullivan, he authored eight studies, led numerous consulting projects, and tracked other diverse markets such as satellite television, launch services, emerging satellite applications and content delivery networks.

Patrick French is based in Strasbourg, France. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and attended the 1999 ISU Summer Session in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. He is fluent in French.

The Sad State of U.S. Broadband

The U.S. has a dismal showing among nations in terms of broadband availability, with no easy solution to bridge the gap

by Catherine Holahan

Although the Internet was started here, the U.S. can't seem to catch up with other developed nations when it comes to giving citizens access to high-speed connections.

For the second year running, the U.S. ranked 15th among the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in terms of broadband availability. Denmark ranked first again in the annual OECD survey, followed by a host of European and Asian nations. Indeed, while the number of Americans with access to broadband service rose 20% last year, to nearly 70 million people, the most in the OECD, that amounted to just 23 of every 100 residents. By contrast, the top five countries in the OECD ranking all sport per-capita penetration rates of better than 30%.

Why isn't the U.S. up to speed online? The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is quick to point out differences in population and geography that have made it more difficult for the nation to catch up with smaller countries. It is easier, after all, to deliver broadband in densely populated areas where the same cables can serve hundreds, if not thousands, of subscribers, giving phone and cable TV companies the financial incentive to upgrade their networks. The U.S. has rural areas where the revenue to be made from laying down fiber-optic cables to reach scattered households hasn't proven alluring to many providers. "It's easier to achieve a high penetration in Manhattan than Mississippi," said FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate in an Apr. 30 speech at the Broadband Properties Summit in Dallas.

Little Competition

But challenges of wiring remote communities don't tell the whole story. The OECD also found that U.S. broadband providers charge more than those in many developed nations. Broken down by megabit per second of download speed, U.S. rates ranged from $2.83 to $38.41 in late 2007. Rates in Japan started as low as 13¢ for one megabit per second, while France, Sweden, Korea, Finland, Australia, and others all start off at lower prices than the U.S. Furthermore, residents of European and Asian countries tend to have access to far speedier broadband options than Americans.

Consumer advocacy groups blame what they see as a market with little competition. They say the ability of major telephone and cable operators, such as Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T), Time Warner Cable (TWX), and Comcast (CMCSA), to dominate their markets without sharing their lines with rivals has kept out new competition, enabling the companies to keep prices high and investments in faster technologies low. "All of these countries that are outpacing us have much more competitive broadband markets than we do," says S. Derek Turner, research director at Free Press, a media policy group. "You don't have the head-to-head competition like you do overseas where they have embraced open-access policies."

Turner and other consumer advocates are calling for the FCC to spur competition by requiring providers in certain regions to lease their high-speed lines at regulated prices to other providers. Otherwise, Turner says, would-be rivals will never enter the market, as they can't afford to tear up streets and run their own lines into households already wired long ago by cable and phone companies. Verizon, for example, is spending $23 billion to replace its copper wires with fiber-optic lines for its new high-speed FiOS broadband and TV services (BusinessWeek.com, 1/30/07). It hopes to have 7 million FiOS customers by 2010 in return for that hefty investment.

The FCC has rejected the argument that such measures are needed, saying Verizon and others would never invest that sort of money in network upgrades or in extending broadband to new communities if they were forced to then lease those lines to competitors. The government's role, says Commissioner Tate, is to have a "light regulatory touch," easing restrictions for broadband requirements to encourage competition and cracking down on acts that stifle competition, such as exclusive service deals between broadband providers and apartment building owners.

"Critical Role"

Regulators also hope that recent auctions of new wireless spectrum licenses will introduce new broadband competition over the airwaves. The problem with that argument, as consumer groups see it, is that broadband titans AT&T and Verizon were the auction's biggest winners (BusinessWeek.com, 4/21/08). "We fully expect that AT&T and Verizon will push things complementary to their existing services like mobile TV," says Turner. "We think there was a big opportunity missed."

Even if new rivals do emerge from the recent auction or another one being mulled to sell unused "white space" airwaves between TV channels (BusinessWeek.com, 3/24/08), wireless Internet access tends to be slower than a wired connection, says Turner. "It will make a difference," says Turner. "But, in the end, wireless spectrum just can't compete on a speed basis with fiber optics and hard-wired lines."

The U.S. has good reason to figure out some way to gain on the other OECD countries. A broadband connection is increasingly necessary to take advantage of the Web's interactive and rich media features, and is instrumental for e-commerce. "Broadband not only plays a critical role in the workings of the economy, it connects consumers, businesses, governments, and facilitates interaction," wrote OECD report authors Taylor Reynolds and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent. "Governments need to actively look for ways to encourage investment."

Check out the BusinessWeek.com slide show to see which countries claimed the top 15 spots in the OECD's ranking.

Holahan is a writer for BusinessWeek.com in New York.

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Subscriber Values: Q2 2008

Business customers remain more valuable than residential, as competition in residential service decreases.

by Alex Goldman  ISP-Planet Managing Editor [August 25, 2008]

Subscriber numbers are from ISP-Planet's list of Top U.S. ISPs and from company reports (and are as of June 30, 2008). Market capitalization data is as of market close, August 12, 2008, as reported on Yahoo Finance.

Our ISP rankings now contain only one pure, public ISP. United Online no longer considers itself an ISP. Time Warner is downplaying the importance of AOL.

ISP Subscriber Value:  $297
Stock Symbol	ISP	Value per subscriber	Market Cap (millions)	Number of subscribers
[ELNK]	EarthLink	$297	$979	3,299,000

EarthLink, unfortunately, shows a higher subscriber value because its market cap is steady as subscriber numbers fall.

CLECs
Our CLEC listings require close examination. We are comparing a wide variety of companies, and we welcome your comments

CLEC Subscriber Value:  $2,008
Stock Symbol	CLEC	Value per subscriber	Market Cap (millions)	Number of subscribers
[PAET]	PAETEC	$5,396	$851	162,940
[ALSK]	The ACS Group	$1,322	$526	397,846
[GNCMA]	General Communications	$811	$433	534,384
[SURW]	SureWest	$502	$107	213,141

Notes on CLECs
Fairport, N.Y.-based PAETEC reported serving 162,940 T-1 lines. Since it also delivers VoIP and also delivers high margin T-1 lines, its average revenue per customer (ARPU) is higher than many other CLECs on this list, justifying the price difference. The company reported over 47,000 business customers.

Anchorage, Alaska-based General Communications (CGI) competes as a CLEC with the ACS Group (below), which operates more like an ILEC. Nevertheless, GCI has found markets it can own in cellular and cable, as well as interesting niche markets in schools and rural health. Its consumer segment appears to be stronger than the business segment. The company reported the following subscribers:

Segment	Cable	Cable Broadband	Long Distance	Access Lines	Wireless
Consumer	130,700	91,000	89,800	78,100	77,000
Resell				2,000
Business	not disclosed	9,000	10,400	45,400	7,100
Other	+ 51 schools (representing 171) + 39 Rural Health clinics = 90
Total	= 540,190 subscribers

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Anchorage, Alaska-based Alaska Communications Systems Group(The ACS Group). It served 180,541 access lines. It had 148,679 cellular customers (361 resale), 65,011 long distance customers, and 55,873 internet customers (47,939 DSL plus 7,934 dialup). The company is more like a rural ILEC than a CLEC, but its reported subscribers are declining in most segments.

Anchorage, Alaska-based SureWest is a small town ILEC that operates as a CLEC outside its home area. The company's success demonstrates the power of the ILEC advantage. It operates VoIP, cellular, and broadband (mostly DSL). It reported 105,600 broadband subscribers of which 100,200 subscribed to broadband internet, 56,600 to VoIP, and 57,100 to video. Since its VoIP business was only launched in March, 2008, the take rate is extremely impressive.

ISP sale
Q4 2007 saw one publicly announced purchase of an ISP that we know of. Multichannel news reports that SureWest acquired Everest Broadband for $173 million. The deal closed on Dec. 6, 2007. It covered 37,500 customers and was therefore worth $4,613 per customer. Key to the deal's high valuation were 1,600 commercial customers.

Nevertheless, the article notes:

The price also represents a healthy cash flow multiple–at 9.1 times Everest’s estimated third quarter 2007 annualized cash flow, compared to past overbuilder deals that have been valued at about 8.5 times cash flow.

Since the deal, SureWest's stock has fallen—perhaps one more case of a company being punished by Wall Street for reinvesting cash in its business while others are rewarded for letting equipment expire. The company sold its directories service in Q1 2007. In the past, this would have been a sign of distress, as directories were a profitable monopoly, but nowadays directories are just another monopoly that has been broken open by the internet.

Notes
Covad was acqired [.pdf] by private equity. It no longer reports numbers and has been removed from the list.

We have been hearing about many Wi-Fi rollups but most are secretive. Our one recent story (so far) on this subject is about Two Wi-Fi Rollups in Texas.

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Related articles:
	[Jan. 7, 2008]	Consolidation in the Commuications Mid-Market
	[Dec. 21, 2007]	Banking on WISP Acquisitions
	[Nov. 27, 2006]	ISPCON: The Banker's Optimism

Online resources:
	DSL Subscriber Numbers
	History of Subscriber Values
	ISP Rankings Worldwide
	ISP-Planet's Investor section
	Top U.S. ISPs by Subscriber [source]

EarthLink returns to dial-up for its future

With over 10+ Million (possibility 20+ million) homes and businesses still left un-served in last mile DMA's, the dialup business is going to remain vibrant for years and years, until terrestrial broadband providers build their terrestrial DSL, FTTH, wireless, etc. infrastructures out to them.

This all reminds me of how the analog C-band satellite television industry was considered 'dead' back in 1994, when Ku-band mini-dish players like PrimeStar, DirecTV and DishNet started. Today C-band technology is still a reliable viable and cost effective solution for several hundred thousand homes and businesses.

How long will Dial-up survive? 10 years? 15 years?

Thomas William

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Broadband in a Box

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Louisville Kentucky 40223

Direct: (502) 426.2067

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By KRISTI E. SWARTZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/28/08

EarthLink invested for years in potential replacements for its once-thriving dial-up Internet business: a mobile phone service aimed at teens, citywide wireless high-speed Internet and broadband that runs over utility power lines.

None of them worked.

Plagued by an eroding customer base, EarthLink has managed to stay afloat — and even turn a profit in the first quarter after losing $135 million in 2007 — by slashing its work force in half and abandoning two failed ventures. Now, it's crunch time. CEO Rolla Huff is banking the company's future on the very thing that has caused trouble in the first place: dial-up.

Hello?

Huff has been saying for months he is serious. He has argued that he can't stop losing customers to broadband but what he can do is buy dial-up subscribers from other companies that don't want them and build a critical mass.

It's unclear whether that strategy will work.

"The old core Internet service provider business that was central to EarthLink and AOL is really fading away and drying up," said Lydia Leong, an analyst for Gartner, an information technology research company in Stamford, Conn. "They are a company with declining fare and declining brand equity."

EarthLink is scheduled to release its second-quarter earnings Tuesday . Executives declined to be interviewed saying the company was in a quiet period and could not speak to the media ahead of the earnings announcement. The company made a small profit of $54.4 million during the first quarter, and executives raised their full-year forecast to between $245 million and $260 million.

Analysts are hoping for some answers Tuesday on EarthLink's strategy for the long haul.

"What's the long-term solution to the challenging business model? I don't think they have figured it out, and it may not exist," said Mike Paxton, an analyst with In-Stat, a technology and communications market research firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Relying solely on dial-up Internet access is not a good story for their customers, their employees or Wall Street."

A recent addition to EarthLink's board may provide a clue about the company's intentions: telecom industry veteran M. Wayne Wisehart has been either chief financial officer or CEO of a number of phone, wireless or Internet business that eventually were bought by larger companies, giving him plenty of experience in navigating through an acquisition.

Though troubled companies are often prey for prospective buyers, analysts said none would probably be interested and that EarthLink has time to pursue the purchases Huff seeks.

"We see EarthLink as an acquirer," said Scott Kessler, an analyst with Standard & Poor's in New York. "If you think about what they've done, they've basically gotten out of these other businesses and have done that so they can focus on dial-up."

EarthLink rose and fell with the Internet boom, but while major telecom companies such as AT&T and Comcast were throwing money into high-speed Internet, the company tried branching out into other ventures as a way to survive. It dabbled in Internet telephony, partnered with Duke Power to launch broadband over power lines, or BPL, on a trial basis and paired up with satellite TV providers DISH and DirecTV to market its Internet services.

Then EarthLink and SK Telecom invested about $440 million into Helio, a wireless company aimed at teens, with the hopes of capturing 3 million subscribers by 2010. Virgin Mobile bought the joint venture — and its 170,000 customers — in June for about $39 million in stock.

The company shut down another troubled venture, a municipal wireless network in Philadelphia, one month before. The $17 million effort that was part of a larger nationwide project, which is being phased out.

During EarthLink's first-quarter conference call in April with analysts, Huff acknowledged that while the company continues to lose dial-up subscribers, he sees a "long and profitable tale" in that market by buying those customers from other companies.

Huff was optimistic, telling investors that he considers such acquisitions one of EarthLink's core competencies. In fact the company has bought more than 120 groups of dial-up Internet subscribers since 1999.

During the conference call he said there is a "constant list of people that we are talking to on a consistent basis," but would not give any names. Analysts, including Jim Friedland at Cowen & Co., say the ones being courted are Time Warner's AOL and Microsoft's MSN.

Huff told analysts that AOL, MSN and United Online each have to determine how important the dial-up business is to them.

"At some point, scale will matter as much to them as it does to us," Huff said. "And we're better positioned all around to be that consolidator. We're going to try really hard to continue to acquire dial-up customers. We just want to make sure we're going to make money off of them."

Friedland, an analyst with Cowen & Co., is skeptical.

"We continue to believe that the company's dial-up base, which generates the majority of its (earnings), will decline to zero in five to six years," he wrote in a research note based on the company's first-quarter earnings.

Other analysts are less dramatic.

"While dial-up Internet access is a dying business, it is hardly a dead business," Kessler said. Companies such as EarthLink, however, have to work hard at maintaining a critical mass of customers to stay profitable, he said.

Huff has said he is bullish about the company's long-term prospects.

"I believe we can make our company better than it is today," he told analysts.

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Can't Argue, when you're right you're right Stephen!

Another great write up, this time by our friends at EzineArticles.com Thomas William VP Partner Solutions Broadband in a Box 1302 Clear Springs Trace Louisville Kentucky 40223 Direct: (502) 426.2067 Toll Free: (800) 761.9149 Fax: (502) 515.3710 Email: tomw@bbinabox.com # # # # # # # # # One Way Satellite Internet Service By Stephen Long

It can be nearly impossible to get good high speed Internet access if you don't live near a city. When you do find that access, it often turns out to be far too expensive. If you feel like you're being punished with lack of access, just because you happen to live in a rural area, you're not alone. Over 25 million Americans living outside the range of DSL and cable feel the same way.

The good news is that a growing number of providers also agree with you. They think that every rural American deserves to have reliable access to broadband speed Internet services, including affordable, efficient satellite Internet access and a service that's friendly and helpful.

You should have the high speed satellite Internet access you've waiting for, no matter who you are and where you live. Even if you're one of the twenty-five million people living outside the DSL and cable service area, you can have access to all your favorite pages without the wait.

One way satellite Internet service uses satellite technology to download data to all 48 contiguous states at high speeds. You'll get your equipment cheaply, too - there's no need to pay the high prices for equipment and installation that come with two-way satellite access.

Equipment purchases start at forty-nine dollars, and annual plans for services are less than thirty dollars each month. That's cheaper than many cable plans, and comparable to a number of DSL service plans. Installation can be done on your own, and takes only a few hours. Otherwise, you can use some of the installers offered by your network. This reliable, affordable service is the solution to your high speed Internet woes.

One way satellite Internet access is a simpler system that offers a better online experience than two way satellite Internet systems. Unlike two-way services, these systems use your phone line as the request path. You won't need complicated, expensive equipment for two way transmissions, that way. This type of system gives you the ability to install the system on your own, lower latency, and significantly reduced rain fade.

Unlike two-way satellite Internet service, one way systems almost never go down. Don't worry about rain or heavy cloud cover - you'll have access to the sites you love. This service is reliable and affordable, and available in all of the lower 48 - no American will have to go without access to broadband speed Internet.

You'll enjoy on-demand movie downloads, streaming video and music, and the ability to do remote study for school. You can watch online TV and enjoy an interactive experience - much more than you can do with dialup! Don't wait any longer for your high-res images, flash animations, video, or updated software. DSL and cable have left you behind, but you don't have to go without Internet service just because of where you live.

Can't get cable or DSL. Set up your home with Skyway's high speed Satellite Internet Access. Skyway USA offers affordable satellite Internet access plans to rural America. Get the speed that you deserve for as low as $29.95 PER month!

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