Whether Satellite Internet Or Satellite TV, Receivers Are Popping Up Everywhere
February 3rd, 2010 |
Perhaps you’ve noticed a funny thing taking place in many neighborhoods across the nation and in many parts of the world for that matter: satellite receiver dishes are popping up all over the place, in home after home, as if we were dealing with some sort of architectural acne. Many people that have yet to experience (much less subscribe to) any sort of a satellite service probably find this development to be quite perplexing; on the other hand, the people that have experienced (and likely have also subscribed to) such services are quite clear on exactly what is going on. It’s nothing more than a clear manifestation of consumers’ preference, at the national as well as the global level, for a superior quality of service in all regards: from the connection itself to the support that backs it up. In this case, it would appear to be a simple and straightforward case of satellite internet and satellite television services dealing a major blow to cable and other service means operating in the same market.
Now, to somebody that took their eyes off the satellite industry in general many years ago, this may all seem to be sheer madness. After all, back when satellite communications made their debut on the home-based consumer market a few decades back the industry in general was seen as unreliable and nothing more than the resort of people who had no other choices (i.e., the people living way out in the middle of nowhere, hundreds if not thousands of miles from anything and everything). That’s what the paradigm was for many a long year, and that’s the way it was supposed to be forever-right? Wrong! Satellite television and then more recently satellite internet have been undermining their cable rivals (that term hardly seemed applicable back then, and soon that will be the case again but for the total opposite and inverse reasons) at a steady pace that has risen to near-frenzy over the last five or more years.
Satellite internet in particular was seen as a long shot kind of service, one that would never be able to compete with the “big boys” in the internet provider field. Internet applications by nature require that signal latency be as brief as possible and that service interruptions be as infrequent as possible, which were precisely the two problems with satellite internet posed for the average user. Yet the engineers and technicians in the field proved not to be quitters, and they toiled away at what seemed to be the ultimate “mission impossible” until the impossible actually came to be!
And the result is what you see today on rooftops from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida: namely, the most insane profusion of satellite receivers imaginable. And the fact that satellite internet as well as television services have been commanding better and better positions within customer satisfaction surveys has only spurred this trend on even more.
If you want to try out both services and see what real satisfaction is, then subscribe to wildblue, the Direct TV satellite internet service. Imagine that: TV and internet all in one-what are you waiting for?!
