The Outernet project...

[smackababy]

I thought that was all kickstarters? The idea that they should remove the risk and reward from investors and place solely the risk onto the consumers is a incredibly stupid idea.

 

[John Connor]

Latency would be horrendous.

 

[John Connor]

Ask Motorola how their Iridium network deployment went :awe:

Boats still use sat phones....

 

[halik]

Boats still use sat phones....

You can get satellite internet from places like immarsat at like $5/mb. This whole thing, again, is a pipedream. We're literally days away from them pandering for money on kickstarter.

 

[John Connor]

I tried to play Command And Conquer with a guy in Scotland and he had sat Internet, never could join him in a battle.