StarBand has announced the national launch of the new StarBand 481 Telecommuter service that aims to provide customers with a business-grade satellite modem compatible with a wide array of operating systems (including Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux) and offers faster download and upload speeds than current StarBand Residential satellite offerings.

With the high-performance StarBand 481 Telecommuter service, customers receive download speeds up to 750 kbps, upload speeds of 100 kbps in Turbo Mode (available for most large file uploads), limited VPN capabilities, ten free Web mail accounts, free basic Web hosting and an optional static IP address.

“The StarBand Telecommuter service is a perfect fit for those who work from home and need high-speed Internet access, but are unable to receive DSL,” said Chief Executive Officer Zur Feldman.

“This addition to our family of StarBand products fills the gap between our StarBand Model 360 Residential service and our StarBand 480 Pro Small Office service by bringing the power of our business grade service to a home user.”

“StarBand is the only satellite Internet access service provider looking out for the interests of the millions of telecommuters across the country today,” said StarBand Vice President of Sales and Marketing Howard Lossing.

“We will continue to launch new products and services to meet the needs of our customers and as such, will have more exciting announcements in the near future.”