As satellite Internet technology improves, Exede starts boosting its broadband caps

If you’re living in a rural area, “broadband” likely means slow speeds and strict limits on the amount of data you can consume each month.

But Exede, the rural broadband service owned by satellite Internet service provider ViaSat, is starting to close that gap between the city – with its access to cable modem or even fiber connections -- and rural areas.

Exede will start testing a new broadband plan with a 150 GB-per month gap in several regions of the US. It’s calling the new Freedom Plan a “virtually unlimited” service, which is on par with the monthly limits at which many wireline ISPs are capping their lower-tier plans.