mexibob
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Wild Blue Satellite Internet Service
Would anyone have any information on the Wild Blue Internet Service via satellite.
I think it's similar to DirecWay and I'm wondering if it will work in Mexico.
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losfrailes
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The word I got is that Wild Blue does not work south of Tijuana in Baja. Direcway works all the way down the peninsula.
Anyone have a different experience?
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Diver
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Nope, their map shows the ugly truth.
http://www.dbsinstall.com/WildBlue/wildblue.asp
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Pompano
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Their map looks good for my summers Up North.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Bob and Susan
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who owns "wild blue"?
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Neal Johns
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Major owner:
Liberty Media - that also owns:
* Court TV (50%)
* Discovery Communications, Inc. (50%)
* Discovery Channel
* The Learning Channel
* Animal Planet
* Travel Channel
* Discovery Health Channel
* Discovery Civilization
* Discovery Home & Leisure
* Discovery Kids
* Discovery Science
* Discovery Wings
* People & Arts
* Europe Showcase
* E! Entertainment Television (10%)
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* QVC
* Starz Encore Group (100%)
* Game Show Network (50%)
* MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (67%)
* DMX Music
* International Channel (90%)
* Jupiter Programming Co. (Japan) (50%)
* Pramer S.C.A. (Argentina) (100%)
* The Premium Movie Partnership (Australia) (20%)
* Torneos y Competencias, S.A. (40%)
Cable and Telephony
* Cablevisi?n S.A. (Argentina) (39%)
* Chorus Communications Limited (Ireland) (40%)
* Digital Latin America (43%)
* IDT Corporation (11%)
* Jupiter Telecommunications Co. (Japan) (45%)
* Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico, Inc. (100%)
* Metr?polis-Intercom, S.A. (Chile) (50%)
* Omnipoint Communications, Inc. (4%)
* Sprint PCS Group (20%)
* Telewest Communications plc (UK) (20%)
* The Wireless Group (30%)
* UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. (74%)
Satellite Communications Services
* Liberty Satellite & Technology, Inc. (87%)
* Aerocast.com, Inc. (39%)
* Astrolink International LLC (27%)
* Hughes Electronics Corporation (1%)
* On Command Corporation (66%)
* Sky Latin America Satellite (9%)
* Wildblue Communications, Inc. (32%)
* XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. (1%)
Other
* AOL Time Warner Inc. (4%)
* News Corporation (17%)
* Viacom (1%)
* Vivendi Universal (4%)
* PRIMEDIA (partial investment)
* Motorola, Inc. (3%)
* Cendant Corporation (3%)
last updated 3/16/04
About WildBlue:
WildBlue was founded as KaSTAR Satellite Communications in Colorado in April 1995.
WildBlue?s strong concept, technology, and business plan have attracted blue chip strategic investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
EchoStar, Liberty Media, Gemstar-TV Guide, Telesat, TRW, Intelsat, and NRTC.
More:
WildBlue has a significant equity stake in US Monolithics, a leading satellite and wireless transceiver designer, to further help in its efforts to
lower the cost of the satellite dish.
WildBlue's strong concept, technology and business plan has attracted blue chip strategic investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
EchoStar, Liberty Media, TV Guide, Telesat and TRW. In addition, the company has a seasoned management team of Internet, satellite and cable industry
executives. Among these is David Drucker, WildBlue's founder and chairman, who was one of the founders of EchoStar Satellite Corporation (provider of
the DISH satellite TV service). WildBlue CEO and president Thomas Moore was previously was a senior executive at CableLabs and one of the architects
of Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS), the cable-modem engineering specification that is now a worldwide standard.
WildBlue's management and technical team is composed of terrestrial and satellite data communications experts from top companies including EchoStar,
Cable Television Laboratories, Tele-Communications Inc., Time Warner Cable, SynOptics, Loral, Bay Networks and Pac Bell.
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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Bob and Susan
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wow!!!
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Neal Johns
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B&S,
I really don't know any more about it than what I sucked off the internet above. 
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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Bob and Susan
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and that's enough for me...
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losfrailes
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Good map and the reading material there explains why it won't work south in Baja. Spotbeam technology!
Conversation earlier with Tech Support for WB explained exactly what spotbeam tech does and does not do. Looks like the Brownsville TX spot reaches
quite a ways down into mainland Mexico.
Also I have a friend who is successfully getting it as far south as Hermosillo. However, he is also using DirecWay as his main provider.
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mexibob
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Very informative, thanks for the effort.
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