Ralph Sanchez writes: > I guess a lot of those 2.1 million customers probably live in very > rural areas where maybe other forms aren't available, or the cost to > lay wire would be more then they have. My thinking is, we have GPS > that works nearly (ok maybe not) everywhere you'd go and want > internet, so why hasn't some billionaire or multi-billion or trillion > dollar company decided to provide a wifi type service in the same way?
GPS requires many orders of magnitude less bandwidth than does Internet service. There is satellite Internet service and some people in remote areas use it. However the present version has serious drawbacks. Elon Musk plans to change that. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
