<div dir="ltr">Hi, Yosem (and others)--<div><br></div><div>In addition to what has been said about sat phones and other devices, it is worth keeping track of <a href="https://lynk.world/">Lynk</a>, which next year will be launching satellite services using regular mobile phones. Your phone will communicate directly with the satellite, obviating the need to buy an additional device and pay for new services. </div><div><br></div><div>Lynk is forming partnerships with carriers, so you will be able to simply carry on using whichever company you already use. And, with the wide footprint of the satellite, you effectively will never be without signal. Lynk is going to start with just offering SMS service, then move to basic data, then higher bandwidth data and then voice. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Troy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:50 AM David Stodolsky <<a href="mailto:dss@socialinformatics.org">dss@socialinformatics.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 6 Dec 2019, at 22:54, Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com" target="_blank">ycompanys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span> </span>(For Iridium, that assumes one has line of sight.) </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>All sat. links are line of sight. Iridium orginally was planning 77 units, so one would always be in sight. </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">For perspective, I live on the Silicon Valley Coastside (i.e., Half Moon Bay). Comcast and AT&T rely on PG&E's transmission cables for Internet access. As such, whenever a power shutdown occurs, many of us on the Coastside are left without cable or Internet access. I shudder to think what would happen during the Big One. Even when there are no power shutoffs, however, Comcast appears to throttle our community on a regular basis</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>This type of situation is what motivated people in Portland to set up their own mesh like network. If you had one person or two on the top of the hills, they could bridge the signals over to the East. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://portlandmeshnet.org/" target="_blank">https://portlandmeshnet.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>dss</div><div><br></div><br><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics<br>Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark<br><a href="mailto:dss@socialinformatics.org" target="_blank">dss@socialinformatics.org</a> Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070</div></div></div>
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