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I'm pretty sure that what you are saying is true with regard to satellite Internet, and I had the same thought you did in reading that point. I do wonder though
by arghnoname 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that what you are saying is true with regard to satellite Internet, and I had the same thought you did in reading that point. I do wonder though, how do sat-phones work?
- po 17y agoThose actually do broadcast back up to the satellite with a radio. I think the bandwidth is extremely limited though. Prices would probably be around $5 per megabyte. Nothing the average chinese would be able to afford, and there's no way Google would be able to recoup that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access#Portable_satellite_modem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access#Porta...
- arghnoname 17y agoAh thanks, that's interesting. Before I saw a sat phone, I thought power draw would be too much of an issue, but obviously it works. I suppose you could beam in static versions of wikipedia, chinese language information, etc, easily enough via satellite or terrestrial sources, like radio free Europe. As a publicly traded corporation, if Google started putting money into a venture without any hope for revenue to antagonize a major world power, the shareholders would likely object.
- po 17y agoOh, here's an idea: I was at a tech party here in Tokyo recently saw a device that was simply a wikipedia gadget. Just an LCD screen and a keyboard for searching. They said that as a user you were entitled to two updates a year. As a someone who already has an iPhone with access to wikipedia I didn't see the point of it, but if you put the Chinese version of wikipedia and a satellite receiver into it…