Broadband Forum

Although I am not a tech guy or genius but I have heard about Thuraya satellite phones. Are we talking about the same thing?

If I understand correctly, satellite connection is the one news channels are using to transmit live video feed and all. The antennae on top of news vans are used to achieve these connection. I am not sure how do we get a satellite connection in India.

Satellite connections are not necessarily independent of landlines. Satellites have very huge latencies due to their nature. In an effort to counter this, and also to avoid a part of the huge costs of sending data through satellite connections, V-sat terminals are often combined with telephone lines. Send requests through the "slow but low latency" telephone and recieve data through the "fast but large latency" V-sat.

I think you should have said narrowband but low latency telephone and broadband but large latency vsat.

never thought i'd see the day when someone would call a telephone link as low latency.