*Caution* Assumptions and flawed reasoning are used in this post.
I ran out of unlimited 150GB data so I'm bored.
Currently Viasat has about 576,000 subscribers and a throughput of 440gbps.
The companies total revenue is $439.7 million per year.
33% is from subscribers.
17% is from commercial networks
50% is from government
For the sake of argument, lets pretend that 100% of their bandwidth capacity is solely for consumers and they are able to connect to BOTH Viasat 1 & 2 .
440gbps = 440,000mpbs, 440,000mbps / 576,000 subscribers = .7369mbps per subscriber (all simultaneously downloading).
What is the max number of people (simultaneously downloading at 25mbps) the satellites can handle while still delivering me my advertised 25mbps?
440,000mbps / 25mbps per subscriber = 17,600 subscribers. That's 3% of all subscribers
Lets figure out how much Viasat makes every gigabyte.
440gbps * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = 1140480000 gigabits can be transferred in a (30 day) month if the satellites are always transmitting at max capacity.
1140480000 gigabits / 8 bits per byte = 142,560,000 gigabyte or 142.56 petabytes!
$439.7 Million / 12 months per year = $36.64 Million a month
$36,640,000 / 142,560,000 gigabyte= $0.257 per gigabyte.
How much do I pay per GB? $100 / 150GB = $0.667 per gigabyte (not bad at all!).
If all 576,000 customers had 150GB unlimited plans and downloaded their max data they would only use 86,400,000 gigabytes of the satellites' total monthly capacity.
Sources:
http://investors.viasat.com/news-releases/news-release-details/viasat-announces-fourth-quarter-and-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-2
I ran out of unlimited 150GB data so I'm bored.
Currently Viasat has about 576,000 subscribers and a throughput of 440gbps.
The companies total revenue is $439.7 million per year.
33% is from subscribers.
17% is from commercial networks
50% is from government
For the sake of argument, lets pretend that 100% of their bandwidth capacity is solely for consumers and they are able to connect to BOTH Viasat 1 & 2 .
440gbps = 440,000mpbs, 440,000mbps / 576,000 subscribers = .7369mbps per subscriber (all simultaneously downloading).
What is the max number of people (simultaneously downloading at 25mbps) the satellites can handle while still delivering me my advertised 25mbps?
440,000mbps / 25mbps per subscriber = 17,600 subscribers. That's 3% of all subscribers
Lets figure out how much Viasat makes every gigabyte.
440gbps * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = 1140480000 gigabits can be transferred in a (30 day) month if the satellites are always transmitting at max capacity.
1140480000 gigabits / 8 bits per byte = 142,560,000 gigabyte or 142.56 petabytes!
$439.7 Million / 12 months per year = $36.64 Million a month
$36,640,000 / 142,560,000 gigabyte= $0.257 per gigabyte.
How much do I pay per GB? $100 / 150GB = $0.667 per gigabyte (not bad at all!).
If all 576,000 customers had 150GB unlimited plans and downloaded their max data they would only use 86,400,000 gigabytes of the satellites' total monthly capacity.
Sources:
http://investors.viasat.com/news-releases/news-release-details/viasat-announces-fourth-quarter-and-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-2