Satellite broadband is becoming slightly more affordable as Avonline has reduced the installation fee of it’s Tooway satellite broadband system by £100.
Installation will now start at £599 which includes the satellite dish, modem, installation and activation of the satellite broadband service.
Avonline’s Tooway service is able to offer broadband speeds of 3.9Mb download and 384Kb upload with 2.4GB monthly usage for £29.99 per month. For those who need greater data transfer there is another deal that offers 12Gb of data transfer for £99 per month.
The Tooway service is able to cover the whole of the UK making broadband accessible for those who live out in remote and rural areas and those in not spots where standard wired and mobile broadband does not cover.
A new national tax is to be levied onto all fixed telephone lines in the country to help pay for the the universal roll out of next generation broadband across the UK it was announced in the Digital Britain Report yesterday.
A charge of £6 per year, or 50p per month, is to be charged to every fixed line telephone and will raise funds of up to £175 million per year that will then be used to subsidise the cost of extending next generation fibre broadband Internet access to the areas of the country where it is not currently planned to be rolled out to as it is not financially viable for the broadband providers to pay for this themselves. There is currently around 30% of the country that will benefit from this investment that live in rural areas that would be missed out from receiving fibre broadband initially.
This is going to be a yearly charge and it is expected that by 2017 all areas will have next generation fibre broadband installed and available to them.
The report also confirmed the government want a minimum 2Mb broadband across the country for everyone by 2012 which is what we have been under the impression would have been announced. This is to be funded in a number of different ways which includes using the £200 million surplus left over from the Digital Switch Over Help Scheme.
The full 245 page Digital Britain final report can be read at www.culture.gov.uk
The BBC have filmed a short video about the construction of the HYLAS Satellite that is being built for Avanti Communications.
Their Satellite is going to be used to help deliver the minimum 2Mb broadband that is called for by the government for broadband in the UK by 2012.
The Satellite is set to launch later this year and will be a dedicated broadband satellite for Europe. The Avanti satellite will be able to provide satellite broadband to around 350,000 homes in the UK at the minimum 2Mb broadband speed.
The satellite will use the Ka-band of radio frequency which is able to send a more focused beam to Earth.
The Digital Britain Report is due out today where more details about the delivery of broadband in the UK will be talked about.
A charge of £6 per year, or 50p per month, is to be charged to every fixed line telephone and will raise funds of up to £175 million per year that will then be used to subsidise the cost of extending next generation