Commodity Communications Seeks To Abandon Equatorial With Ku-Band Broadcast System

Commodity Communications Corp. has become the first Equatorial Communications Co. customer to begin Ku-band quote delivery with an eye on eliminating Equatorial altogether. Using a video subcarrier and a 30-inch downlink, CCC claims it gets "sufficient" reliability and cost savings to justify moving half of its customer base to Ku by year's end.

"In the long run, it's very likely that this will replace Equatorial," says John Schillaci, general manager at Lombard, IL-based CCC, a unit of Oster