Tuesday, January 9, 2018

ViaSat Enters Beta On Commercial Satellite Broadband Service

Carlsbad-based Viasat said on Tuesday that it has started beta service on its ViaSat-2 satellite, and plans full commercial launch in February. According to ViaSat, it has already demonstrated speeds over over 100 Mbps to production consumer terminals on the service, which serves North America, Central America, the Caribbean, a portion of northern South America, as well as the primary aeronautical and maritime routes across the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe.