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7 days agoWhat a surprise, lawmakers in the USA cut their noses to spite their faces … again.
I wonder what it would take for this to stop happening.
Onno (VK6FLAB)
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… and then goes on to point out how they are arbitrarily applied.
Well that’s one way to shoot yourself in the foot…
Iridium by Motorola was working in 1997 when I interviewed one of the team.
They had everything working, satellite to satellite call handover, line of sight handover, uplink and downlink, all the technology was great.
The only problem?
Billing. They couldn’t figure out how to make billing not be an international long distance call because local telcos refused to allow ground stations in their country.
Now Starlink is making agreements with those same telcos to allow direct to satellite mobile phone communication.
Rule 34 wants a word …