WildBlue
WildBlue Communications, Inc. is a corporation based out of Greenwood Village, Colorado. The company offers satellite based broadband Internet services to both home and business customers. WildBlue is one of the newer satellite internet services, having come into operation in 2005.
After nationwide beta testing the first residental customers had WildBlue service installed at their home in June of 2005. During the summer of 2005 a dealer network was established to provide installation and customer service to clients throughout the United States.
WildBlue claims superior performance both in terms of upload and download speed and also latency through its use of newer satellite technology. Specifically, WildBlue uses the Ka-band instead of the Ku-band (used by established competitors such as Hughes Satellite's Direcway), covers the U.S. and most of populated Canada using many "spot beams" instead of a single beam covering the entire market for efficiency and has adopted DOCSIS technology to reduce costs while maintaining quality of service. Competitors such as Hughes have also announced their transition to Ka-band satellites.
WildBlue currently offers download speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 256kbps.