Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 08:11:54 -0700 Subject: More Sky Station Info From: "Dewayne-Net Information List" <dewayne-net@odo.warpspeed.com> To: dewayne-net@warpspeed.com (Dewayne's Wireless News List) Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Reply-To: dewayne-net@warpspeed.com
The FCC just approved Sky Station International, a plan to provide T1-level service (1.5Mbps) to your laptop via giant "weather balloons."
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Public_Notices/1996/pnin6060.txt http://www.fcc.gov/ib/wrc97/texts/iwg1-m3.txt http://www.fcc.gov/ib/wrc97/texts/iwg6-m5.txt http://www.fcc.gov/ib/wrc97/texts/iwg6-m3.txt
The stations themselves will be platforms held at a height of approximately 100,000 feet by lighter-than-air craft and station-kept by corona ion engines.
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