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79 posts categorized "Telecommunications"
September 29, 2021
August 18, 2021
Letter from Starlink
With a few notes on significance.
Last month Starlink sent the letter below to Beta users of which I am one. The news in it is important to those waiting for Starlink or considering ordering it. I can’t find an online copy so I’m posting it here along with some comments following the text More...
July 19, 2021
Computing Clouds in Orbit – A Possible Roadmap
Last week, I predicted that much of the internet and most cloud datacenters will launch into space in the next ten years. Today the only part of the Internet in space is a very small amount of “b More...
July 13, 2021
The Internet and The Cloud Are Going into Space
Unlike Bezos and Branson, they’re going to stay there.
Today we have space-based internet access and a terrestrial internet; within ten years, we’ll have a space-based internet. Internet traffic will travel more miles in space than on terrestrial fiber. By that time the g More...
June 16, 2021
Another Free Way to Tell if Starlink Broadband Will Work at Your Location
Also a good way to find out where you want to move your dish if you have problems.
June 10, 2021
Amazon Sidewalk Should be Kicked to the Curb
It may already be sharing your Internet connection AND your data.
Amazon Sidewalk went live in millions of homes today, June 9. If you have a late model Echo or an Amazon Ring device, Sidewalk can now use your internet connection for o More...
May 03, 2021
More Unlimited Data is an Oxymoron
It started with having to upgrade my “unlimited” plan to increase the data limit. We’re on the road, and the WiFi at Wisconsin State Fair RV Park is almost but not quite good enough for serious Zooms (about 1.5 Mbps up and down with More...
April 21, 2021
Testimony Today on a Rescue Program for Vermont Families Who Can't Afford Broadband
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April 19, 2021
The Next Few Weeks Will Decide Whether Broadband is Affordable for All Vermonters
There is enormous opportunity; never has Vermont had to decide so quickly what to do with so much money. Never than in this almost post-pandemic world has there been such urgency to bring Vermonters stranded on the wrong side of broadband gulch the internet connections to the world they need. The More...