If you’re living in a rural area and depend on satellite for your internet access, you probably have a more limited definition of broadband than those of us living in cities with access to cable modem or even fiber connections. If you’re in the former category, “broadband” likely means slow speeds and strict limits on the amount of data you can consume each month.

But Exede, the rural broadband service owned by ViaSat(s vsat), is starting to close that gap. On Monday Exede will start testing a new broadband plan with a 150 GB-per month gap in several regions of the U.S. It’s calling the new Freedom Plan a “virtually unlimited” service, though I’m sure many a hard-core video streamer would disagree. But at 150 GBs, the plan is on par with the monthly limits at which many wireline ISPs are capping their lower-tier plans.

Relatively speaking this isn’t exactly…