Satellite is pretty much the last way you want to deliver broadband. It's comparatively slow and the 48,000 mile round-trip from ground to satellite to ground pretty much kills any kind of interactivity. Those are particularly bad characteristics for VoIP. Still, there are places in the world where there's just not a whole lot of choice, where bad broadband is better than none and cheap voice service is vital no matter how spotty. Rural Australia is one of those places, and MyNetPhone and URSYS say they've knocked down the problems and are teaming up to provide VoIP in some of the vast remote parts of the continent. They're not the first, apparently, but they may be the biggest players to address that market.
For more information about satellite VoIP:
- read this article [1] in VoIP News
Related Article:
DirecTV tries satellite VoIP. Report [2]
Links:
[1] http://www.voipnews.com.au/content/view/1288/109/
[2] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/directv-tries-satellite-voip/2006-09-01