WANsat™ will create a comprehensive high-capacity, ubiquitous, point-to-point, seamless integration of two-way voice, two-way video conferencing, broadcast, narrowcast, Internet services, data, fax, computer network, entertainment video and audio programming via direct broadcast, and retail end user sale telecommunications technologies.

The SWANsat™ high-power geosynchronous telecommunications constellation will provide video, audio, information, text, and other services directly to, from, and between end users, bypassing terrestrially based distribution services such as computer networks, the public switched network (PSN), cable television outlets, computer information networks, or other distribution systems.

SWANsat™ is a hybrid system combining the best of mobile and fixed satellite services into a coherent communications system that meets the needs of user-customers wherever they happen to be in the world. Users will be able to place and receive telephone and fax calls, to receive and send email, to access Internet services, to receive and place two-way interactive video conferences, to operate their personal computers, to access personal and corporate intranets, LANS, and WANS, to receive educational services, and to access entertainment video and audio programming through the SWANsat™ System.

SWANsat™ will help meet the growing demand for telecommunications services by offering a full range of bandwidth-on-demand services. End users will be enabled seamlessly to integrate a variety of two-way data transmission and reception services ranging from the digital equivalent of a 3Khz telephone line to OC-3 (155 Mbps) and above.

SWANsat™’s sophisticated signal regeneration capability will allow for reprocessing on board the SWANsat™ spacecraft of signals received from end users antecedent to their rebroadcast back to their intended receptors. More than 12,000,000 digital channels will be constantly available for use by SWANsat™’s Subscribers.

Because of the high frequency of the SWANsat™ transmission and reception bandwidths requested, SWANsat™ will not be as susceptible to signal attenuation caused by atmospheric and meteorological disturbances as is the case with other transmission systems that operate at lower electromagnetic frequencies, such as the C-band, Ka-band and Ku-band.

SWANsat™ will offer a cost-competitive alternative to traditional terrestrially-based telecommunications systems, serving the needs of urban, rural, and extremely remote location end users. Because satellite communications are inherently immune to cost-to-distance sensitivities, SWANsat™ does not plan to offer its services on a per-minute use.