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ViaStat's focus is currently on the aviation, military, business, and consumer sectors in the Americas, Europe and East Asia and not on the addressing the other 3 billion with no Internet access in regions such as Africa. Besides having fixed based terminals, they also have portable satellite terminals <http://www.satcomresources.com/Viasat-Exede-Pro-Portable-Satellite-Terminal> .  Until ViaSat-2 is launched, they have limited Inflight Wi-Fi on "JetBlue and some United Airlines commercial planes <http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/aug/06/viasat-spacex-jet-blue-united-airlines-amazon/>". ViaSat-1 launched in late 2011 supports 140Gbps of capacity. In 2016 they are launching ViaSat-2 offering between 250 and 300 Gbps, and in 2020-2021 they plan to launch ViaSat-3 in the terabit range.  ViaSat03 is actually three satellites, will launch in 2019. Buchman claims that, by 2021, the company will have the entire “visible earth footprint” covered, (everywhere except the North and South poles).The first market ViaSat 3 will address is the Americas, building on the presence of ViaSat 1 and 2 while plunging significantly further into areas like Latin America. The second ViaSat 3 satellite is to focus on Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and the third on the Asia Pacific. 

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