Tata Sky DTH: DTH Internet?

I had read once some satellite 'Eutelsat W3' provides internet service in Europe & middle east. Need to search more on it!

Me tto have read about such a service in US and Canada, with a rider "especially suitable' for 'Arizonians and Alaskans". No cost and tariff details were given; the service provider had to be contacted for the details; lost interest.

Internet over DTH will not come to india atleast in the near future due to various reasons..

a. DTH can only provide downstream link and not upstream.. To pass on upstream data you need to connect to the DTH provider via dialup ( analog / ISDN ). This case it makes uploading huge data slow as well as the fact that the SP has to prep for upload streams via dialups to customers.

b. To be able to do this, the DTH provider should also have ISP licenses in class A section and only the tata group is currently an ISP. Dish and sundirect are not. Moreover satellite space seems to be a preimum for all DTH providers in india... We dont have enought TP space for adding channels, let alone data !!

c. Third and most importantly, all the STB's provided by current DTH players does not have a provision in them for connecting a phone line, which is important to enable upstream.

Old news, dated 2-July-2007
Telecom majors Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications (RCOM), which are set to make their Direct To Home (DTH) foray by the year-end, plan to have a key differentiator from existing players in this space. Bharti and RCOM are looking at providing satellite-based broadband internet services along with their DTH offerings. Globally, a number of DTH majors, especially in the US have adopted this strategy. Bharti’s and RCOM’s move may also prompt Dish TV, country’s largest private DTH player to enter this space in the coming months.
Airtel, RCoM DTH to offer broadband - Telecom-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
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ITSME, agree with the PR you pasted, but like every other PR does by our DTH players, they need time to be implemented and hence my terming it as unavailable in the near future.

Unlike elsewhere like US, satellite space is a premium since its regulated by ISRO's Antarix. Providing bandwidth over satellite capacity is a very costly affair in india and terrestrial fibres are a more economic and viable option... ( Trust me! i used to be a telecom consultant a carrier in india and have also worked for two national ISP's )

However, I am not saying that I'net over DTH is an impossiblity, but what i am trying to mean as an impossibility is the enormous cost factor which a consumer has to bear... it cant even be compared to the broadnand tariffs which bharti and reliance offer nowadays and hence satellite i'net is not a possible option for consumers .

@msjanus, I agree, and I was just laughing at the older news that all major DTH players will start giving the broadband connection by end of 2007.