According to a story on Business Week, Walmart will begin selling broadband internet access. That would be of the satellite variety. They’ll begin re-selling Hughes Communications satellite service right away. It’s not a huge market but one of the barriers to satellite access has been price. The bet is that the price will go down now that the big dog is selling it.

The story says that currently only “about 10% of Americans have no access to DSL or cable broadband.” That’s still a lot of people and a lot of them are in rural areas. So farmers without access to DSL or cable, take heart. Another option is surfacing at a store near you.

According to a story on Webpronews.com:

Wal-Mart will offer satellite broadband in 800 stores and pricing will start at $60 a month for 700Kbps download speeds up 2.0Mbps. The company is also rumored to be testing a service similar to Best Buy’s Geek Squad.