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====Internet via satellite phone==== {{Multiple issues|section=yes| {{Advert|section|date=April 2024}} {{No sources|section|date=April 2024}} }} For many years{{When|date=July 2011}} [[satellite phone]]s have been able to connect to the Internet. Bandwidth varies from about 2400 [[bit/s]] for [[Iridium Satellite LLC|Iridium network satellites]] and [[ACeS]] based phones to 15 kbit/s [[upstream (networking)|upstream]] and 60 kbit/s [[downstream (networking)|downstream]] for [[Thuraya]] handsets. Globalstar also provides Internet access at 9.6 kbit/s; like Iridium and ACeS a [[dial-up]] connection is required and is billed per minute, however both [[Globalstar]] and Iridium are planning to launch new satellites offering always-on data services at higher rates. With Thuraya phones the 9.6 kbit/s dial-up connection is also possible, the 60 kbit/s service is always-on and the user is billed for data transferred (about $5 per [[megabyte]]). The phones can be connected to a laptop or other computer using a USB or [[RS-232]] interface. Due to the low bandwidths involved it is extremely slow to browse the web with such a connection, but useful for sending email, [[Secure Shell]] data and using other low-bandwidth protocols. Since satellite phones tend to have [[omnidirectional antenna]]s no alignment is required as long as there is a line of sight between the phone and the satellite.
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