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In The Spotlight: HughesNet Satellite Internet (formerly DirecWay)

Satellite companies have recently poured money into marketing themselves as a bridge for the broadband divide — saviors of those beyond the technology or management reach of dsl, cable and wireless.

According to HughesNet’s website, they are “America’s #1 Choice for Broadband by Satellite.”

The site goes on to state that:

bquote “HughesNet is the high-speed Internet solution that s available to everyone in the contiguous US with a clear view of the southern sky. HughesNet uses satellite technology, not your phone line, to give you a super-fast, always-on Internet connection. HughesNet gets you online instantly, lets you surf and open pages faster and download files in a fraction of the time it takes on a dial-up modem.” /bquote

The singular advantage of HughesNet is that the alwa
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