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JSAT, Sony working on small two-way satellite dish

Japan’s largest communications satellite operator, JSAT, and consumer electronics giant Sony, are collaborating on a small, inexpensive two-way satellite antenna. Only 45 centimeters in diameter, the new dish would be about one-third as expensive to make as the 75-centimeter dish that is currently the smallest JSAT uses.

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No Japanese launch date has been set, although it is expected to be deployed early next year. It is likely the small dish will migrate to migrate to the American consumer satellite industry where its download speeds up to 30 M/bps and upload speeds up to 128 K/bps would make it highly competitive with U.S. cable, DSL and fixed wireless providers in the high-speed access space.

--Jim Barthold, senior editor

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