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- jgrahamc 19y agoI don't understand the claim that a USB wireless Internet dongle is going through this satellite. Those dongles use 3G technology and hence connect to the 3G cell phone network (if they were transmitting straight to this satellite then I should be able to get coverage everywhere... which I don't). Now the 3G network might decide to use a satellite (although it's more likely connected to the wired PSTN), but I think the article is confusing normal 3G connections you'd get from your provider with Broadband Global Area Network services from Inmarsat which does not come as a small dongle. http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Land/BGAN/default.aspx http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Land/BGAN/default.aspx
- asdflkj 19y agoThe Economist's coverage of Eastern Europe is worthless, at best. Their Eastern Europe correspondent, Edward Lucas, also writes for The Daily Mail. You can see his work here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_page_id=711&in_overture_ua=cat&in_start_number=0&in_restriction=byline&in_query=edward%20lucas&in_name=on&in_order_by=relevance+date http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_p... He has a book out, called The New Cold War. And he's selling it, both to idiots who read The Daily Mail, and the fine (if not very well informed on this particular subject) people who read The Economist.
- hugh 19y agoCan you be more specific about what you don't like about this guy's coverage of Eastern Europe?
- asdflkj 19y agoIf nothing on the page I linked seems suspect to you, I don't think anything I say will help, either. And this isn't the place to talk about politics, anyway. I just thought many fans of The Economist here would be shocked to see that a writer they trust also writes that in his spare time.