[SatNews] According to the latest data published by Eurostat, broadband penetration rates average only 25 percent across EU countries.

This leaves more than 30 million households and small businesses without high-speed Internet access. To address this vast untapped market, Hughes Europe now has a program for value-added resellers to offer high-speed Internet access using the company’s market-leading HN satellite platform, operating over Avanti’s high-capacity, Ka-band satellite, Hylas 1. Hughes was the first company to launch consumer satellite broadband services and today remains the world leader in this market, with more than 660,000 subscribers in North America. Leading international satellite services provider and Hughes Europe channel partner, BentleyWalker, is the first to sign on and is buying a range of grades of service as it looks to extend its business into the consumer broadband market in the U.K. Bentley Walker already has substantial experience providing broadband voice and data services to military personnel across the Middle East and Afghanistan using Hughes technology.