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So now we'll have the battle of the billionaires--Bezos vs Musk to see who can be the fist to launch thousands of low altitude satellites and create a world-wide internet system. Maybe we'll even see space warfare between the competing satellites! https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-is-planing-to-launch-thousands-of-satellites-to-offer-high-speed-internet/
I'm still waiting for the monorails and home helipads I was promised as a kid.
I'm still waiting for the monorails and home helipads I was promised as a kid.
?? Me too!
I'm still waiting for the monorails and home helipads I was promised as a kid.
Not me, they wouldn't leave room enough for me to park my flying car! 
I can't help but chuckle when I think that Amazon might combine package delivery with its satellites. With a space-based warehouse, packages could be routed to satellites which would "target" them on your home! ?
I can't help but chuckle when I think that Amazon might combine package delivery with its satellites. With a space-based warehouse, packages could be routed to satellites which would "target" them on your home! ?
That should work! You'll just need to stick one of these in your backyard pool... 
So maybe we could get satellite phones like in Europe and Asia and ditch cell towers, or maybe we will have phone service with satellite wifi.
So maybe we could get satellite phones like in Europe and Asia and ditch cell towers, or maybe we will have phone service with satellite wifi.
Although satellite phones are available all over the world, cell phones in Europe and Asia are tower-based, just like ours.
docj I have been all over Europe and Asia and everyone I have been with had a sat phone. Never even saw a cell phone overseas.
docj I have been all over Europe and Asia and everyone I have been with had a sat phone. Never even saw a cell phone overseas.
You weren't paying very close attention.
docj I have been all over Europe and Asia and everyone I have been with had a sat phone. Never even saw a cell phone overseas.
Would it surprise you to know that Samsung alone shipped about 15 million cell phones to the EU in just the first quarter of 2018? That was about half of the combined ~30 million shipped by the major vendors.
This article is primarily about Huawei and Xiaomi in the EU market, but the statistics are interesting. Both companies are huge in Asia not surprisingly, although Samsung is the sales leader there as well.
https://qz.com/1275570/never-mind-the-us-huawei-and-xiaomi-are-huge-in-the-eu/
docj I have been all over Europe and Asia and everyone I have been with had a sat phone. Never even saw a cell phone overseas.
Current generation US cell phones are "world phones" capable of operation in most countries. A couple of years ago we were using our Verizon phones in London and I can go to my Google location history and see which museums and other places we were at on a minute by minute basis!
docj I have been all over Europe and Asia and everyone I have been with had a sat phone. Never even saw a cell phone overseas.
You never saw anyone inside a building using a mobile as they call it over there? Sat phones don't work without a clear view of the sky.
I lived in Europe (Spangdahlem AB Germany) for seven years from Jan 1990-Jan 1997. Never saw a single Sat phone. I sold Satellite dishes and cards as well as dial up ISP services there when we used an octopus and 50 US Robotics modems on one wall hissing and screeching and heating up the NOC uncomfortably hot. We still used bricks but cell phones were coming in for key personnel then trickled down just after I retired. No satellite phones then save some special folks.
I lived in Europe (Spangdahlem AB Germany) for seven years from Jan 1990-Jan 1997.
We miss living there, Bitburg AB. Was there '90 - '94. Was a sad time helping close down. Sure enjoyed BernCastle, spent a lot of time there. We did a lot of *wine probing* up and down that river.
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