Nov 13, 2017 -- ViaSat sets February ViaSat-2 satellite debut, details flat-panel R&D work in Europe
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“If we can create very large amounts of bandwidth economically in space, then we can use it a little bit less efficiently on the ground with some of these phased arrays, and a couple of the applications that we’re looking at,” Dankberg said.
“One is residential. The idea would be that you could essentially buy in a box a little flat-panel antenna that you could take home and stick it on a wall facing basically south, and it would acquire the satellite. It would basically reduce our SAC [subscriber acquisition cost] for those types of self-installs fairly significantly. Or create an opportunity where subscribers could just take on an installation on their own — a Geek Squad type of thing that you see in Best Buy.
“The connected cars opportunity is also really interesting because we can make antennas that we think are sort of the size of like a GPS or a satellite radio antenna that’s essentially invisible on modern cars and still get really high interactive broadband data rates on a ViaSat-3 class satellite.”
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