Several satellite broadband resellers tell us that satellite broadband company Wild Blue may be halting new orders in several States, apparently because they're struggling with capacity. Resellers state that the ISP has stopped (or will soon stop) taking new orders in Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Louisiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Northern Indiana and parts of Texas. Existing customers will not be impacted, according to vendors.

Resellers say they received an e-mail stating that at least one WildBlue-1 beam would be shuttered to new users as of September 24, 2007. It's not clear if the capacity issues are on the bird or on the ground. We've asked Wild Blue to clarify and confirm, but we've yet to hear back from the company.

After significant delays, Wild Blue turned on their WildBlue-1 KA-band satellite back in March. At the time, the company had 130,000 customers, but insisted that the new satellite offered them enough capacity to serve 750,000 customers. Shortly thereafter, the company started offering rebranded service via both AT&T and Echostar.

WildBlue does cap their users, but, like HughesNet, calls such caps their "fair access policy," or FAP(pdf). The cap is a rolling thirty-day limit on data use that varies by tier, but if exceeded, results in the customer's broadband connection being throttled to 128kbps/28kbps.