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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."

9 of 274 comments (clear)

  1. Does it use WiMAX? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or bluetooth?

  2. 10MB/sec is not enough by connifer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Even though officials noted since satellites are immune to damage by earthquakes or floods, they are not immune to this amount of chatter.

  3. Moo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does it have tenticles?

  4. Mod parent down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What moron modded this troll insightful?
    Or is it supposed to show that lameness filter broke?

    1. Re:Mod parent down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      mmmm... elephant cock...

  5. obligotory poop comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other news, the number of scat sites on the internet is expected to triple.

  6. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yah, the d00d is being incredibly redundant by paraphrasing stuff from the article and should stop whoring llamas.

  7. Re:Japanese in space? by Old+Sparky · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All your packets are belong to US!!!

  8. 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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