Your neighbor's satellite dish is just the beginning of a growing use of satellite technology intended to meet the world's insatiable appetite for "more" and "faster." Satellite dishes may soon link you to everything from television programs and telephones to the Internet.
Satellite TV is the best known and most widely used form of this cutting-edge technology. "Satellites have opened up a whole new world of televised entertainment," said Robert Mercer, manager of communications for El Segundo, Calif.-based DIRECTV owned by Hughes Electronics Corp. With three satellites and 175 channels, DIRECTV has picked up more than 2.3 million subscribers since launching service in 1994 and …
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