Satellite Internet was first introduced to public in 2004-2005 by Eutelsat which topped its speed at 3mpbs. Since then the technology has evolved greatly with the capability to provide internet in rural areas. There have been two main areas in which satellite internet has improved, the first is reliability and the second are bandwidth.
Reliability because the connection quality was greatly dependant on weather conditions as the antennas on early versions of satellites were extremely weak in comparison to satellites today which aren’t affected by weather. Secondly, the bandwidth satellite internet provided was incomparable to ADSL and the trend still continues. As, the problem with the current satellite internet services, is that the speeds offered by them are still extremely slow and expensive in comparison to today’s fiber optic internet.
An example of this service would be iiNet’s NBN satellite internet which cost’s $65 per month for 250GB and speeds ranging from 5mbps and 25mbps. However, all this will be changed when Starlink is fully released as it is already extremely promising in its beta testing.