Space X just launched the first 10 (of 70) of Iridium NEXT low-earth satellites.
https://www.iridium.com/company/industryleadership/iridiumcertus It’s not high bandwidth (about a 1MB/sec), but should be lower latency than HughesNet, Wildblue, etc. From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Nick Thompson <[email protected]> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:13 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again No BroadBand at my farm in Central Massachusetts. Awaiting Gary’s International Assistance. Remember a few years back when Venezuela was supplying cut-rate oil to low income people in New England? Just Sayin’ Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again I have been working here in Ecuador to provide internet access to poorly served areas, and it is a challenge, albiet not an insurmountable one. Wireless technology from smallish companies like Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, and Mimosa to name a few, is pretty inexpensive, even here where import duties are high. The big challenge where I'm working is getting line-of-sight between nodes, where there is a lot of dense forest cover over 20 meters high. One thing that I found interesting in the article that Jochen linked to is that the US FCC defines broadband as 25mbps down / 3mbps up. Maybe I'm just used to it, but I find about 2up/1down plenty even for video streaming. More is always better, of course :-) On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Santa Fe, and New Mexico in general, is interesting in that regard. [...] But then there is a lot of the countryside that is left out of this. I really like the idea of making the Country(side) important. In NM there issues with the tribal lands which are poorly served, but it's getting better.
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