[FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

[Marcus Daniels]

Space X just launched the first 10 (of 70) of Iridium NEXT low-earth satellites.

https://www.iridium.com/company/industryleadership/iridiumcertus

It’s not high bandwidth (about a 1MB/sec), but should be lower latency than HughesNet, Wildblue, etc.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:13 AM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

No BroadBand at my farm in Central Massachusetts.  Awaiting Gary’s International Assistance.  Remember a few years back when Venezuela was supplying cut-rate oil to low income people in New England?

Just Sayin’

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

I have been working here in Ecuador to provide internet access to poorly served areas, and it is a challenge, albiet not an insurmountable one. Wireless technology from smallish companies like Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, and Mimosa to name a few, is pretty inexpensive, even here where import duties are high. The big challenge where I'm working is getting line-of-sight between nodes, where there is a lot of dense forest cover over 20 meters high.

One thing that I found interesting in the article that Jochen linked to is that the US FCC defines broadband as 25mbps down / 3mbps up. Maybe I'm just used to it, but I find about 2up/1down plenty even for video streaming. More is always better, of course :-)

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net<mailto:owen at backspaces.net>> wrote:
Santa Fe, and New Mexico in general, is interesting in that regard.
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But then there is a lot of the countryside that is left out of this. I really like the idea of making the Country(side) important. In NM there issues with the tribal lands which are poorly served, but it's getting better.
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