ADSL and similar services available from BT and their resellers make use of the existing landline telephone infrastructure that has been in place for many years to deliver ADSL to your premises. All BT has to do to deliver broadband to you is insert a fast internet connection into the telephone exchange, and share it over the phone lines. The downside of this is that the infrastructure is old, in poor condition and incomplete in many areas which is why many people still can’t access ADSL even in urban or city locations.

With satellite, the investment in the satellite and related infrastructure runs into tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of pounds and this has to be factored into the price of the airtime.  

You also need to invest in the hardware for you to be able to take advantage of the satellite technology. The hardware you will be buying is very robust and reliable, and will typically run without maintenance for 5 years +. At £499 that works out at around £100 a year, or £8.33 a month which most people consider better than not being able to have broadband at all. With airtime starting at around £40 a month, we are getting very close to the price charged by many ADSL Internet Service Providers.

Only you can decide if having broadband is worth this reasonable investment.

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