Wired is reporting that telecom giant Inmarsat is weeks away from launching the second in a series of two super-satellites that will beam broadband data and voice services to almost any location on the planet.
The service will cover 88% of the globe, and will offer speeds of up to speeds of up to 30 Mbps. Portable access terminals complete with Wi-Fi support for up to 5 connections will also be available in a wide variety of bit rates, up to 492 Kbps.
In this resurgent field, Inmarsat’s $1.5 billion project could be one of the first to deliver broadband data and voice simultaneously — with truly toteable hardware — using what the company claims are the most powerful and sophisticated commercial communications satellites ever launched.
Source: Wired
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