Embattled wholesale satellite broadband contender LightSquared has taken off the gloves.

Distance from the telephone exchange badly affects data-transfer speeds; 5km is the current limit for broadband, while satellite broadband, the alternative to fixed-line, is relatively expensive.

As with other broadband services, the provision of satellite broadband is very competitive, with lots of new offers and special deals, so it is worth shopping around.

It will be positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 107.1 West, from where it will be used for satellite broadband.

Others are stuck with satellite broadband with its usage caps and poor latencies, or, still worse, dial-up.

We have a new contract which will deliver satellite broadband to those areas that we cannot reach by fixed line.

We hear about a new solution to the remote issue - satellite broadband.

Since leaving Sunderland Quinn is now chairman of a satellite broadband company in Ireland called Q Sat.

Do we need satellites faster than 140gb/s or more radio frequencies allocated for satellite broadband?

That sort of capacity, he says, alters the economics of satellite broadband.