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Not sure about satellites. Facebook and Google are experimenting with solar-powered planes and balloons for this purpose. One problem with satellites is that yo
by dukoid 10y ago
Not sure about satellites. Facebook and Google are experimenting with solar-powered planes and balloons for this purpose. One problem with satellites is that you can't make them stay at the same spot, except for geostationary orbit above the equator, which is quite far away.
- brohee 10y agoHandover is a solved problem, so not that much of an issue. The article skims on some technical limitation tho, IIRC the number of simultaneous calls that could happen simultaneously in the continental US was in the low thousands, dunno if it improved since launch but that was definitely not mass market, even if the terminals got a lot cheaper...