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Japan to Deploy Massive Broadband Satellite

Posted by samzenpus on from the connect-anywhere dept.

demachina writes "Japan has announced plans to deploy a massive broadband satellite operational in 2015. It will provide 100 Mbit/sec service to mountains, remote islands and bullet trains along with comm for disaster recovery. Its giant 66 ft. diameter dish is supposed to be able to receive even weak cell phones signals. Of course, the ping times wont be so good."

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  1. Re:Receive Traffic? by mrselfdestrukt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your ship hey? How much did that set you back?
    Anyway, that is cool!

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