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Satellite Solutions Worldwide was formed in November 2008 by Andrew Walwyn, Simon Clifton, Selwyn Petterson and Tom Wheeler to initially address the 20 million households across Europe who cannot access even slow broadband speeds due to limitations in the telecommunications infrastructure in their geographical location and instead to offer them broadband via satellite.

At the inception of the business the only consumer and small business satellite broadband services that were available in Europe were on Ku band satellites meaning that broadband download and upload speeds were limited and prices were high for the consumer market. Satellite Solutions Worldwide foresaw the disruptive opportunity for the company presented by the arrival of Ka band satellite communications in 2010 which brought significantly higher speeds, better throughputs and a pricing structure more accessible to the consumer and small business user.

By attaching a satellite dish (of a similar size to dishes used for satellite TV purposes) to the outside of the premises which is connected to an indoor modem, SSW’s broadband offering presents a customer experience that is similar to that offered by wired broadband and the connection can be shared in the normal way with PCs, tablets and smart-phones via a normal wired or wireless router.

SSW purchases broadband capacity from a variety of satellite companies, sells or rents to the end user the necessary hardware to access the internet (and installs the necessary equipment, if requested) and then provides an ongoing satellite broadband service on the terms of an airtime tariff selected by the customer. The tariffs are structured in such a way as to suit all types of users.

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