Las Vegas can be considered as the city where everything is possible and where the newest technologies are always welcome. This desire to be at the forefront has now shifted to high-speed satellite internet access through a new collaboration between Dish Network and the city. Dish is entering the city with its high-speed satellite internet service and aims to connect tens of thousands of households at what is comparable to the speed of fiber optics.
Satellite Internet in areas where it has not been implemented is something that needs to be encouraged.
Most of the areas of the country are now connected to cable and fiber optics providing fast internet speed, however, there are still many rural areas that are provided with slow DSL or even dial-up internet connections. Satellite internet seeks to provide this solution to the digital divide by delivering internet through satellite signals from space able to reach areas without networks for cable and fiber lines.
Given that Las Vegas is densely populated and very urbanized, it might not be expected that it will be among the areas targeted for satellite internet expansion. According to Dish, there were still significant gaps in broadband coverage by neighborhoods in the city. The limited rollout of fiber and hilly topography ensured that some regions had no wired broadband options even in today’s date.
Currently, Dish has joined forces with the city government to leapfrog over such infrastructures as DSL and first-generation cable networks. It is offering cutting-edge, nation-best satellite internet speeds to over 100,000 Las Vegas homes via the Dish Network and HughesNet satellite internet division.
To compete with fiber, the Australian broadband provider pledged to deliver speeds over 100 Mbps.
Previously, the general perception of satellite internet could be classified as a poor man’s broadband access, plagued with high latency, data limits, throttling, and inconsistent speeds. However, Dish’s capabilities show us that those assumptions are no longer true.
With advanced technologies such as multi-orbital satellites, spot beam technologies, and the latest gateways, and modems, Dish offers download speeds of more than 100 Mbps for even entry-level plans. Top-tier plans can provide high speed up to 300 Mbps for downloading and 30 Mbps for uploading. These speeds are on par with today's cable and fiber options offering ultra-fast streaming, video calling, gaming, and smart home integration.
Apart from the speed, Dish offers unlimited data on all its plans and does not have hard data caps. That enables households to use those greater than 100 Mbps speeds at any one time as they wish without fear of receiving a bill shocker. It unshackles internet liberty for even the most data-demanding applications such as 4K streaming, video conferencing with distant family members, or managing a smart home equipped with numerous IoT gadgets.
Assisting in Closing the Digital Divide
This Dish and Las Vegas partnership has several rationales. For Dish, it is a move that opens a new area of operation in the Suburban and Metropolitan areas, a new market beyond the rural base. The tens of thousands of new subscribers in Las Vegas will help demonstrate that modern satellite internet is capable of directly competing with cable and fiber, even in relatively high-density markets.
Las Vegas also benefits through the new high-speed internet competition and options provided to its residents. One cable 100/ Mbps, unlimited and in the low price bracket will lift thousands of households out of the internet black hole. They include students who will get more possibilities for distance education, adults who will get more chances to work at a distance and to get the necessary training for it, and seniors who will be able to overcome the distance to get the necessary telemedicine services.
Fast Deployment, Not a Long Process
It costs millions of dollars and can take months or even years to get the fiber broadband into homes and that is where the customers are always waiting. Dish outperforms the competition with the average time from sign-up to getting set up with fast and reliable satellite internet in 1-2 days.
The equipment involved is also not complex in any way. Technicians will install an outside small receiver dish towards the southern sky and then install a wire inside to connect the modem and the wifi router. Installation is included standard, offering a fully configured plug-and-play mesh wifi system all over the household.
Nationwide Satellite Broadband Push
Disturbing for cable and telecom Goliaths, Dish has only flipped the first page of its satellite broadband growth script with the Las Vegas expansion plan. With the recent capital of $10 billion, they plan to garner over 500,000 satellite internet subscribers by 2025 via Dish Network and HughesNet.
The HughesNet Gen5 satellite internet service began in October 2021 and is the next generation of satellite internet in rural areas. Now Dish is targeting suburbs and metro areas like Las Vegas in this aggressive push. Internet entities such as Cable and fiber that providers of internet services have been restricted for years from accessing neighborhoods and or establishing an infrastructure that is costly now feel new competition beaming down from above.
Las Vegas has always sought to be at the forefront of issues to do with technology, entertainment, and internet connection. Continuing the tradition of innovation, the city has adopted satellite broadband, providing citizens with a fast connection comparable to fiber optics. For households that are still on old networks or have no wired service available to them, Dish’s satellite offering is a welcome addition.
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