Anonyma wrote:
If you want to know how much it will cost you as a consumer, start as
cheap as you can and go price data capable Satellite phones. They start
at about $600 US and go up from there. Satellite service is about $.14 a
minute. On top of that your actual bandwidth will be sold to you in
upload/download packages ranging from around $60/Month for 250MEG up
and 1GIG down (total bytes, not per second), to around 5GIG/7GIG for
$1100 a month.
Dedicated "dialup speed" 32K/sec both ways will run you somewhere around
$400 a month, and dedicated satellite "broadband" around a 1M/sec can
be upwards of $11,000 a month.
And don't forget that every minute of fraction thereof you're connected
it costs you another $.14 or so on top of that. 
ok, it is expensive
and TV vans for example; I guess the most complicated thing to make
TV is one-way. The signal is spewed everywhere and those who want
it, receive it. There's absolutely no need to send the TV station any
information at all. All you need is the receiver, not the transmitter.
You could do this on a boat also, if the Internet weren't by design a
system where information is sent to a specific destination, and then
confirmed packet by packet. 
I wasn't thinking about tv, sometime you can find in big cities those
tv vans with terrestrial satellite antennas (that don't need to be
stabilized), they have a receiver and a transmitter and they put you
online.
Of course with cnn budgets you can do everything but the point here is
that terrestrial systems like this are being sold around 250euro /month
flat fee with connections 256Kbit/512Kbit upstream/downstream
There is another option though, and it's something that's been around
forever. Packet switching via amateur radio bandwidth. There's
literally thousands of amateur repeaters along the US coastline alone
that will allow you to grab essentially free Internet as long as you
have an account somewhere to get your email and stuff. Of course this
takes an even larger initial cash outlay, and a considerable amount of
study and expertise.
nothing you can use in open sea though... and speed is low, very very
low