It ain't anything we hadn't heard already, but those hoping to toss their existing HughesNet service into the nearest (rural) lake can take comfort in knowing that a newer, faster alternative is coming in a matter of days. ViaSat's "exede" residential broadband service will launch on January 16th in the US of A, offering a previously unheard-of satellite promise of 12Mbps down and "up to" 3Mbps up. The best part? It'll start at just $50 a month. The worst part? That's for just 7.5GB of monthly data consumption. You'll need