[liberationtech] Questions about satellite phones + satellite Internet

[Troy Etulain]

Hi, Yosem (and others)--

In addition to what has been said about sat phones and other devices, it is
worth keeping track of Lynk <https://lynk.world/>, 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.

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.

Best,

Troy

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:50 AM David Stodolsky <dss at socialinformatics.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 6 Dec 2019, at 22:54, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  (For Iridium, that assumes one has line of sight.)
>
>
> All sat. links are line of sight. Iridium orginally was planning 77 units,
> so one would always be in sight.
>
>
> 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
>
>
> 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.
>
> https://portlandmeshnet.org/
>
>
>
> dss
>
>
> David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
> dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070
>
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