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Within the global economic system commercial media are powerful players. They not only support and complement the needs of nonmedia firms, but also stimulate corporate growth within countries. As they are also the main vehicle for advertising, commercial media moreover facilitate the marketing of products and services.
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Satellites
Communications satellites are relay stations for radio signals and provide reliable and distance-independent high-speed connections even at remote locations without high-bandwidth infrastructure.
On point-to-point transmission, the transmission method originally employed on, satellites face increasing competition from  fiber optic cables, so point-to-multipoint transmission increasingly becomes the ruling satellite technology. Point-to-multipoint transmission enables the quick implementation of private networks consisting of  very small aperture terminals (VSAT). Such networks are independent and make mobile access possible.
In the future, satellites will become stronger, cheaper and their orbits will be lower; their services might become as common as satellite TV is today.
For more information about satellites, see How Satellites Work (http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/satellites) and the Tech Museum's satellite site (http://www.thetech.org/hyper/satellite).
 http://www.whatis.com/vsat.htm
http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/satellites
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