Lightsquared Completes Next FCC-Mandated Step
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how do the satellites play into this, are they going to use them in place of towers?
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They intend to operate their network using handsets that can connect to traditional cell sites when available, but fall back to satellite transmissions when they're not.
It will basically allow them to launch their moderate-quality voice only service across the entire southern rim of the United States without having to put up a single tower, theoretically.
A year or so back, I had the great pleasure of meeting one of the "Old Guard" engineers from Bell Labs who worked on the original concept for satellite telecommunications the first trans-Atlantic fiber optic line. From what he had to say about the satellite route, satellite capacity would be a huge issue. He also said that service off the geosynchronous satellites degraded rapidly t...
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It will basically allow them to launch their moderate-quality voice only service across the entire southern rim of the United States without having to put up a single tower, theoretically.
A year or so back, I had the great pleasure of meeting one of the "Old Guard" engineers from Bell Labs who worked on the original concept for satellite telecommunications the first trans-Atlantic fiber optic line. From what he had to say about the satellite route, satellite capacity would be a huge issue. He also said that service off the geosynchronous satellites degraded rapidly t...
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