http://inventorspot.com/articles/japanese_satellite_provide_super_11016

this will mean if land cables get cut, internet would still be up running....at least in Asia that is.

Japanese Satellite to Provide Hyper-speed Wireless Internet Service

Japan's KIZUNA satellite, successfully launched from the Tanegashima Island Space Centre on a domestically developed, Mitsubishi H-2A rocket will introduce a new era of hyper-speed [color=blue ! important][color=blue ! important]data[color=blue ! important]communications across Asia. How fast is hyper-speed? Try 1.2 Gbps... the "G" stands for Giga (billion).

Mitsubishi H2A rocket
Let's put things in perspective here: 1.2 Gbps is 150 times faster than the average high-speed ADSL connection rate (around 8 Mbps). It's also 12 times faster than FTTP, or fibre-optic [color=blue ! important][color=blue ! important]communication delivery. What this means is that students, researchers or company employees in different Asian cities will be able to communicate with each other without experiencing any time lag. Now THAT, is awesome... and so is the launch of KIZUNA, viewable here but previously watched live by millions in Japan over the Internet. Naturally.