WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS?
In a relatively short period of time, satellite communications grew from a simple but successful experiment into a complex series of networks comprising a multi-billion-dollar industry. Phone companies use satellites to carry thousands of long-distance calls, businesses use them for data communications, and all phases of the television industry employ satellites to relay their programming from point-to-point. Satellites have solved a number of problems inherent in other forms of communications. The major advantages to use a satellite system are: • Satellites are reliable. Their transmissions are virtually unaffected by changes in the weather, time of day or sun activity. • Satellite picture quality is superior, since the satellite system uses only one repeater. The frequencies used by satellites allow bandwidths of sufficient capacity to transmit TV signals that won’t fade periodically, such as HF radio signals will do. • Satellites are by far the lowest cost means of medium to long-di
