It would make more sense if the lasers are between balloons/drones, not to
earth stations (and certainly not to end users).
One would also think if communications drones are the next big thing, they
would go the way of communications towers and even satellites. Where one
company owns them, and then rents out space. Remember when 5 cellular
companies would all build their own towers right next to each other?
On the other hand, this might conflict with the idea of doing it on the cheap
and basically giving away Internet to get eyeballs.
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 10:55 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] worthless Zuckerberg post about lasers from the sky
There is no fog where they will be deploying this wonderful service.
Josh Luthman
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On Jul 2, 2015 11:52 AM, "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
How is that different from FSO? FSO has always had problems with anything
beyond a 1/4 mile or so. Fog is not friendly to light.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 7/2/2015 8:47 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
It says nothing and has some stock photos of lasers. But 132,000+ already
like it. And the news aggregators are picking it up.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102217102231151
Sounds like a TED talk. How to get Internet to the whole world. Get a
bunch of money, hire some really smart people, and tell them to launch balloons
with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads. Enjoy.
