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Hey we were there together. After Bitburg closed the town nearly went bankrupt. They gouged Military for housing charging twice to four times what they charged Germans for rentals, and many were substandard thast no Germans would rent. I was that Satellite card and hardware provider "The Satellite Connection" and we opened our new Internet dial up provider service, SilynTek/Internet connection, and our offices were just outside the small gate facing Spang's direction at, The Internet/Satellite Connection, Bitburger Str.#94, 54634 Bitburg/Moetsch. We were the first private ISP in that region buying bandwidth direct from Deutsche Telekom. I left in 97 and they became Surf 1, the largest ISP in Germany and then went bankrupt about five years after I sold out as CEO when I returned from overseas. Ahh, the good old days. I ran CATM at Spang among other things, and designed/supervised construction of that gel backstop indoor range there. TSgt Joel Layton at Bit CATM was a good friend.
We split the base in half and gave the airfield sid back to the Germans but kept the housing BX/Commissary/audio photo club. All personnel lived on base with Bitburg's housing added to Spang's including airman and civilians.
Edited April 7 by RV_
Maybe we'll even see space warfare between the competing satellites!
PPV, so they can subsidize launching more satellites?
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.
Those were all cell phones. It's still very expensive to make sat phone calls, and the phones are terribly expensive and fairly bulky. Source: Had one up until a couple years ago.
The planned systems from Amazon, Facebook, and SpaceX won't be wifi; they will operate in the 12-18GHz and 26-40GHz bands, requiring their own receivers and outdoor antennas. These frequencies don't penetrate walls and other objects.
Perzactly Carlos.
Hey we were there together. After Bitburg closed the town nearly went bankrupt. They gouged Military for housing charging twice to four times what they charged Germans for rentals, and many were substandard thast no Germans would rent.
Heard that through the grapevine. We lived in Bitburg for a while, rent was nuts! We moved into a town bout 30 clicks down the road in a little village called Peffingen. Was a small clickish town, but the time we were *in* with the village residence, we had to move back to the states. Made some very good friends there, joined the fishing club which went through our place and had a blast! Our home, and it was a very huge place on 100 acres or so, cost almost half what our apartment rent in Bitburg was. Miss that place, was a once in a lifetime experience. Got to enjoy some german way of life, experience german farming, land lord was burger meister and dairy cattle farmer. Paid alot of our rent by working the fields and milking cows, that was a trip!
Edited April 8 by NDBirdman
Just had my 450 shocks delivered to me by Amazon Drone--not....whatever happened to that, just a publicity stunt?
My understanding is that Prime Air, the department that includes drone delivery development, is still working on the program. Regulatory approvals seem to be the primary holdup I believe.
Looks like SpaceX just launched the first 60 low orbit satellites. I guess this whole massive broadband deployment is going to happen....
Yes, very exciting to see SpaceX make their claim in this space. We were actually on the press conference with Elon prior to the launch, and shared in our write-up the outlook for mobility in terms of RV use:
The more the merrier. I like competition. I see that they are allowing Sprint and T-Mobile to merge and then there will be three.
Edited May 29 by whj469
This will be totally different from cellular networks, and they don't replace each other. What I wonder is how the cell networks will collaborate with these new networks to provide transitional services between them. A collaboration between Amazon/SpaceX and Verizon/AT&T could provide a great seamless experience for users no matter where they go. The equipment will be very different however.
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