SatWest Corp. SatWest is a reseller of bandwidth on orbiting satellites for communications on Earth, a new way of packaging a satellite's capabilities. You just buy access for the time you need. Internet connection or not. Eventually, his system will be able to carry enough information to run heavy equipment or to operate remote computers through his e-commerce Web site. Oil rigs and remote computers are just a couple of the possibilities, Barnett said.
Customers can log on, pay a small fee and then transmit messages to somebody who has a box.
His system will also be able to provide Internet service to people in remote areas without access to the Internet. Barnett, who speaks fluent Spanish, said he is focusing on the Latin American market because, he said, it doesn't have any infrastructure to support Internet connections. He hopes his company will provide a service nobody offers right now at a reasonable rate in an accessible manner. Smith recently moved to Albuquerque with his wife and a few friends from Chicago to start their first company. We could have been anywhere.