Short for
Regional Broadband Global Area Network,
the RBGAN network provides
e-mail and
satellite internet access direct to
portable terminals. The terminal is roughly the size of a laptop computer, and
is connected to a standard
PC using the plug and play
features of the modem itself (
USB,
Ethernet, or
Bluetooth).
RBGAN service is based on Internet Protocol (
IP) and
Packet-Data technologies. Subscribers are usually charged by the amount of data
one transfers (per-Mbyte) rather than per minute service, where the charge is
based on the amount of data sent and received, not the total time spent online.
See also BGAN