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Satellite Internet Catapults Rural and Remote Users into Internet Parity

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Before satellite Internet came along, thousands if not millions of rural Internet users were stuck using dial up as their method of accessing the Internet because DSL providers like phone companies and cable companies did not offer service to users in remote or rural areas. This left people having to rely on notoriously unreliable dial up at a time when the Internet was getting more robust and functionality was geared towards the high speed user. As more websites utilized multimedia functions and downloading of program updates became a daily ritual, dial up users in remote areas found themselves at a disadvantage when it came to Internet parity with their urban and suburban counterparts.

Then along came satellite Internet, which was the first alternative to offer these users access to high speed Internet service. The satellite industry picked up the slack of the phone companies and cable companies and began offering a service that was up to 50 times faster than dial up service with a more reliable always on signal. Rural and remote users took to satellite Internet in droves, partly because they were already familiar with satellite technology. Satellite dishes have dotted the rural landscapes of America for decades because they were the only way people could get pay television reception.

Satellite Internet offers rural home users and businesses the benefits of having a high speed Internet connection that does not rely on landlines to get service. The service is provided through a special satellite dish that is designed to deliver satellite Internet service. The dish is designed to both send and receive signals to the network of satellites that orbit the Earth and provide high speed Internet service for thousands of people in rural and remote areas across the country. The satellite Internet dish can be installed on a rooftop or other area of the property that has a good exposure to the southern sky so the signal is clear.

Once people have satellite Internet installed, they will immediately notice the difference. They have an always on signal that is not reliant on a landline telephone, but rather a satellite dish that is connected to the computer by a special satellite modem. Once connected to satellite Internet, users have a high speed Internet connection that allows them to really get the most out of the Internet experience. Web pages will load faster, particularly web pages which have dynamic content. Files such as music, videos, software and documents download and upload at speeds that can be as high as fifty times faster than a dial up connection.

Satellite Internet has given high speed access to thousands of rural users and has freed them from the limitations of dial up. Now they no longer have to wait hours for a software update download or minutes for a photo to load. With satellite Internet, all of these tasks can be accomplished at faster speeds than dial up with much more reliability and consistent service. Satellite Internet has brought rural and remote Internet users into technological parity with their urban and suburban counterparts and has given them a more robust and positive Internet experience. 

Hughes Net brings you the Internet at speeds up to 50x faster than dial-up. Service is available throughout the lower 48 states. With free standard installation, getting Hughes Net internet is easy and affordable.

Nokia 5800, Nokia N97, Mobile Phones

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The world of touchscreen mobile phones is starting to get exciting, as the biggest name in the industry has waded in with not one, but TWO mobile phones: the sexy Nokia 5800 and the unbelievably jaw-dropping Nokia N97.

An undistinguished history – Nokia’s early attempts at a touchscreen phone

A lot of people seem to be under the false impression that the Nokia 5800 is the first touchscreen phone to wear the Nokia label. It isn’t. Actually, there’s been several touchy-feely phones to wear the Nokia name. Starting at the 7700, there have been a few Nokia mobile phones which are controlled by touch. They had a relatively big (for the time) touchscreen in common, but the other feature they had in common, unfortunately, was that they were irredeemably awful. Just one of those devices, the 6708, showed a modicum promise, but it was destined only for the Chinese market, and thus, we never got to play with them in the UK. So, we were relegated to handsets that were total, utter toss.

However, those bad recollections have all been exorcised due to the debut of two new Nokia mobile phones, both of which have touch-sensitive displays, and both of which are so much nicer…

Nokia 5800 – if music be the food of love…

First up is a completely new member of Nokia’s Xpress family of music mobile phones, the mouth-watering Nokia 5800. This one’s quite obviously built for music and media, as it has a dedicated XpressMedia touch-key that brings up a list of shortcuts to music, videos, the web, and more. Oh, and the Nokia 5800 has a 3.2 inch touch-sensitive display, to actually play with those different media files. Basically, the Nokia 5800 was created as a little handheld jukebox and movie player, and as music devices go, this is just about the prettiest. The Nokia 5800 also comes with a 3 megapixel camera, HSDPA data access and sat-nav, so that it’s a wonderful all-round mobile phone, on top of being a wonderful media player. Oh, and it’s got a lanyard to attach a fake guitar plectrum. That rocks.

However, the Nokia 5800 is very definitely a mid-range handset; it isn’t, nor will it ever be, an absolute top-ender. That role falls to a separate handset…

Nokia N97 – the single best phone EVER made?

With the Nokia 5800 on track to bring touchscreen mobile phones to the mid-range market, that leaves a very big gap at the absolute top-end, and yes, there IS a touch-based mobile phone waiting to be unleashed to fill that gap: the genuinely jaw-dropping Nokia N97. This uses the same Symbian S60 Touch operating system and packages it into the body of a proper, full-tilt smartphone. So it has a bigger, 3.5 inch screen, a kick out QWERTY keyboard, and the camera now weighs in at a meaty 5 megapixels. The Nokia N97 is, in a very definite way, destined to be the new flagship Nseries mobile phone, and it’s truly as high-spec as the rumours said, with HSDPA, GPS, digital compass, and integrated Flash, so that you have an internet experience like no other mobile phones! Put simply the Nokia N97 is simple incredible. It easily outdoes other mobile phones and while the Nokia 5800 aims to take over the mid-range, I reckon that the Nokia N97 will utterly DESTROY the competition next year!

Expert on mobile phones, having worked in the industry for over 7 years.