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Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth from space
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| February 5,2014
Posted on 02/17/2014 9:16:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: upchuck
A surcharge on every subscriber subsidizes the cheap service for the “poor”. The government is encouraging internet providers to do this, they probably get benefits.
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02/17/2014 7:37:24 PM PST
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GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: null and void
traffic jam in earth orbit
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02/17/2014 7:51:44 PM PST
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Nifster
To: I want the USA back
Plus there’s the problem of latency. 1/4 second. No way to overcome that one. That would be for geosynchronous satellites. Apparently this system involves a large number of satellites in much lower orbits. Anyway, apparently the initial implementation will be one-way broadcast only.
To: Paine in the Neck
This is a one way communcations mode, similar to talk radio using hypertext markup language instead of loudmouthed white men." They shouldn't talk about Ed Schultz like that.
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02/17/2014 11:03:11 PM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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