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Vincent Cate wrote: You can get Internet via radio links for reasonable prices. And via satellite for almost affordable prices. When Bill Gates 900 satellites get up there it should be very affordable.

Gary Howland wrote: ... if a tad unrealiable? The thought of 900 satelites in low orbit, all running NT, makes me shudder. Brings a new meaning to the expression "OS crash".

Its been a little over a year but I had heard that the current design was for a lower number of MEO satellites. I would think that cypherpunks would want to see this happen. The political problems are probably larger than the technical ones :-) Regards, Mark Hittinger Netcom/Dallas bugs@netcom.com