Japan’s Launches Satellite Capable of Providing Users in Remote Locations with Gigabit Class Internet Connections
February 25th, 2008Can people in New Zealand hop a ride on this bird? Hmm? Pretty please with sugar on top?
Via: Network World:
Japan has launched a satellite that is able to provide high-speed Internet connections to homes and offices at speeds rivaling those of today’s fiber optic connections.
The satellite launched Saturday, called Kizuna, is part of the government’s e-Japan project and its modest aim is the creation of the world’s most advanced information and telecommunications network.
It will be able to provide broadband Internet connections to homes with download speeds of up to 155M bps (bits per second) and upload speeds of 6M bps. The services will be delivered via 45-centimeter dish antennas, which are about the same size as those used for digital direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV services in many countries.
Even faster connections at download speeds of around 1.2G bps will be offered to commercial users via 5 meter antennas.
You would trust your connection to the worlds information to a Japanese Satellite?
This luxury connectivity will go to their export corporations, just like their cheap Carry Trade loans. It’s a financial war raging right now.
“The governments of Japan and China have been the top purchasers of our cheap government debts. But this was due them desiring control over our government’s policies so the politicians in DC would not fight off their exports to the US. This put us in hock to them.”
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/money_matters/2008/02/elaine-meinel-6.html
You would trust your connection to the worlds information to a Japanese Satellite?
HAHA! I trust it to a Thai satellite now!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPSTAR
The crooks at Telecom New Zealand leave me no other option.