Tracy R Reed wrote:
Paul G. Allen wrote:
Did you read my follow-up post to Mark's? You don't need a dish. You
don't have to "lock" onto the satellite. You don't need a sophisticated
system to move a dish around. You only need a transmitter of sufficient
power and a receiver of sufficient sensitivity.
Correct me if I'm wrong but to get the kind of bandwidth he will need to
download weather charts while at sea I think he probably will need the
things Mark mentioned.
To see if I can explain another way....
Both Inmarsat and Iridium have the bandwidth. There is no need for a dish for either
network. The problems are a) the market is small making the price of uplink hardware high
(like the early days of cell phones) and, b) the market is small making bandwidth fees
high (like the early days of cellular), in the area of $0.75/KB or some such.
We are looking at lower cost modems. It won't be long before some company (or group) will
provide lower cost, wireless access on a global and portable scale.
PGA
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