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Mrs NHD and I are in the process of moving to a rural area in coastal Maine. The biggest problem that I am having is getting high speed internet access. No cable, no DSL. A few weeks ago I had a local provider install a 900 MHz link. When it works, it works well. So far it seems to work very intermittantly. Unfortunately we are in a mediocre to bad zone relative to the three nearest repeaters. As a backup in case this can't get resolved I have been looking at satellite internet. My options seem to be Hughes and...

Excerpt - NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Satellite TV providers EchoStar Communications Corp. (DISH) and DirecTV Inc. (DTV) signed five-year distribution agreements with WildBlue Communications Inc., a satellite-broadband provider, to provide Internet access targeting rural consumers. ~ snip ~

Six years in the making and at a cost of nearly $500 million, a satellite Internet service for rural America now has an official launch date. Denver-based WildBlue Communications announced plans Thursday to roll out its high-speed Internet service on June 2, with Strasburg as the company's first market. A Strasburg couple with two teenage sons, a Dell computer and 26-inch satellite dish has signed on as WildBlue's first subscriber. Theresa Tuttle says it's "simply awesome" that her family will soon be able to surf the information highway as quickly as any city slicker with a DSL line. Husband...

WILDBLUE ANNOUNCES THE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF ITS FIRST SATELLITE PAYLOAD AT 8:44 PM EST, JULY 17TH, 2004 Launch is First Step for WildBlue to Provide High Speed Internet Service via Satellite To Rural America and Smaller Cities DENVER, COLORADO - WildBlue Communications, Inc. (www.wildblue.com), an emerging satellite broadband company, announced that its first satellite payload, aboard Telesat’s Anik F2 satellite, was successfully launched Saturday night from Kourou, French Guiana. The launch of its first satellite payload will permit WildBlue to offer wireless high-speed Internet access services to virtually anywhere in the continental U.S. WildBlue’s offering is expected to be...