Sunday, 8 October 2017

FCC will allow Alphabet’s Project Loon to deliver air balloon LTE to Puerto Rico

quote [ The helium balloons are expected to deliver emergency LTE cellular reception to allow residents and local governments to contact friends and family, coordinate relief and restoration efforts, and reestablish communication with the outside world. It’s unclear to what extent Loon will cover Puerto Rico or parts of the Virgin Islands, or how many balloons the team plans to deploy. ]

Now they need to allow peer-to-peer text passing when phones can't detect an active cell tower (built into all QUALCOMM chips by the way).
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by knumbknutz@9:05pmGMT]

Comments

bbqkink said[1] @ 12:51am GMT on 10th Oct

Post a comment
[note: if you are replying to a specific comment, then click the reply link on that comment instead]

You must be logged in to comment on posts.



Posts of Import
Karma
SE v2 Closed BETA
First Post
Subscriptions and Things

Karma Rankings
ScoobySnacks
HoZay
Paracetamol
lilmookieesquire
Ankylosaur