Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) have announced the start of Bridging the Broadband Gap, a multi-week campaign featuring videos, podcasts, live online conversations and a new issue of SSPI’s digital magazine, The Orbiter.
The campaign explores the expanding role of satellite broadband in bringing education, connection, humanitarian relief and business services to the unserved and underserved regions of the world. Bridging the Broadband Gap is underwritten by Hughes.
The campaign started on January 23rd with a podcast interview of the Hughes VP of North American Sales, Randy Anders, and Hughes VP of the International Division, Vaibhav Magow. SSPI will feature videos on how satellite provides the benefits of connectivity to places never thought possible in SSPI’s Better Satellite World campaign on the same day. New content will be published weekly at www.sspi.org/cpages/bridging-the-broadband-gap.
Satellite has been used to deliver the internet since the 1990s. Today, technology change, new orbits and new delivery models offer the potential for revolutionary progress in connecting the unconnected. The race is on to deliver more bandwidth to levels never seen before — levels that can meet the needs of millions living beyond the network’s edge while providing an adequate return on the significant investment required.
“After many years when satellite broadband was hobbled by high cost and bandwidth constraints, our industry is delivering revolutionary improvements in cost, bandwidth, quality of service and business models,” said executive director, Robert Bell. “In Bridging the Broadband Gap, we will look at case studies, impacts on lives and economies and how broadband via satellite may even bring new levels of flexibility and security to the world’s network of networks.”
You can learn more about the Bridging the Broadband Gap campaign on SSPI’s website.
