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Broadband Barrage Balloons

Internet · 2003-05-26 03:52 · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the moon-over-my-hammy dept. · 287 comments

alnya writes "BBC Online are reporting a story of a York-based company called SkyLinc who are floating baloons connected to a fibre optic pole which, they say, can deliver broadband access at "more than double the speed of most broadband services currently available" - whatever that means. Only 18 balloons would be necessarily to blow BT out the water (according to the article). Is this on the horizon?"