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UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship

Posted by timothy on from the hope-no-one-shoots-this-idea-down dept.

fruey writes "A team from York University, UK are about to test high altitude platforms, according to this article, as a way of bringing high-speed internet services to computer users in remote areas out of reach of broadband. They plan to use solar powered engines to keep the aerial platforms in position. The Capanina site have some more information about this stratospheric broadband experiment. More technical stuff can be found at the York University website This technology could deliver broadband communications at data rates up to 120Mbit/s! Screw cable and xDSL, when will stratospheric be available near me?"

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  1. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. {Score; -1, British} by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We need this new moderation option so I don't have to see any comments or stories made from, or related to that pathetic little island.

  3. When ? by makapuf · · Score: -1, Troll

    when will stratospheric be available near me


    When you move up ?

    *tada*
  4. Re:FP for Hitler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Muslim Extremists, Please Burn their Bandwidth