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Beam 'Satellite internet' is no-more!!

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  • 17-10-2001 6:05pm
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    kendragon
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭


    Apologies if this was shown already... i did a brief skim of the other topics and i couldnt find it.

    this popped into my mailbox yesterday
    Dear Broadband Enquirer,

    It comes as a disappoint to us, to be advised as marketing partner of Onstar (Europe) Ltd that the 'Beam' service (broadband internet access via satellite) will no longer be offered by OnStar (Europe) Ltd. The business operations associated with Beam will therefore be closing with immediate effect.

    As a company seeking to meet the challenges of enabling choice of provision of broadband to the UK and Europe we are already active in securing an alternative partenrship to assist to bring to market

    We thank you for your interest in this site and will advise you as soon as possible of our alternative solution.

    Yours sincerely,

    broadband4uk

    I must have signed up for information or something... dont remember doing it though :)

    Looks like the alternatives are crumbling... although im not surprised with how expensive these solutions are.


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    chernobyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    There no completely gone, their just gonna offer something different and more for the corp market.


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    cmkrnl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭cmkrnl


    Not suprising, when I was installing the security @ their datacentre in Amsterdam last March/April I could not see how they could make it pay given the investment. You would not believe the amount of kit being installed.


    greg


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    zenith
    Registered Users Posts: 785 ✭✭✭zenith


    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/22316.html

    OnStar abandons satellite broadband in Europe
    By Tim Richardson
    Posted: 18/10/2001 at 09:29 GMT


    OnStar Europe - the information, entertainment and communications arm of General Motors Europe - has pulled the plug on its broadband over satellite service.

    In an email to resellers Orlando Bustos, chief exec of OnStar (Europe) Ltd, said: "From 10 October 2001, the 'Beam' service (broadband internet access via satellite) will no longer be offered by OnStar (Europe) Ltd.

    "The business operations associated with Beam will therefore be closing with immediate effect," he wrote.

    No one from Onstar was available for comment by press time.

    However, OnStar's decision has infuriated the head of Scottish-based Strategic Marketing Ventures (SMV), the UK's first reseller of the service.

    Fraser Hay said the announcement - received late last Friday - had come "completely out of the blue".

    Hundreds of potential customers had registered their interest in the service although none had so far been connected, he said.

    Mr Hay told The Register: "We are disappointed that our partner Onstar (Europe), the company supplying our satellite broaband solution, has ceased trading.

    "We have already been approached by several satellite based companies wishing us to work with us, and are currently in negotiations for launching a new service shortly," he said.

    The Beam service was targeted at business users with monthly charges starting at around £150.


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