Internet in Jasper

Yes folks, there is internet service available from several satellite provides. The typical cost is around $65 per month for basic service which is severely bandwidth limited. It's great for making phone calls, checking email, news and surfing web sites and social media. Also, many newer mobile phones support Wi-Fi calling so this enables your mobile phone in Jasper, which is rather remarkable. For many decades, we've been limited to land-line phone service but wireless is finally a reality, although not publicly available.

However, due to the limited bandwidth of satellite service, streaming videos and movies are pretty much out of the picture. In fact, just two or three movies can often consume the data cap for an entire month and you will find yourself purchasing $10/gig for additional data. This is very expensive and makes it prohibitive for streaming video. To put this in to perspective, if you watch 1 HD video on NetFlix, it will cost you $20 in data overage charges.

At the time of writing, Jade Communications in Alamosa is the most well known installer / provider to the Jasper community. Their web site is here: https://gojade.org/