No, I didn't say they are stupid. I am trying to work out what they already know. They have a plan but we do not know what it is.
I'm not saying it will take 13 strats to cover Chicago. I'm saying it will take 13 strats with no ground units and only knowing we do today. There are some pieces of the puzzle that I am missing and I was trying to figure those out.
I think a lot of people assume that the Strat flies over an area and suddenly a circle with a radius of 200 miles has all the full services - broadband, cell phone and others. I doubt that a cell phone can send signal to a strat 13 miles high at a ground distance of 170 miles.
They have other plans. I suspect at this point that ground units will be placed around any coverage area and the strat will "enhance" the services (TV, Radio, Remote sensing) but HotZone units will be installed on the ground to provide the end user connections. So, I think we agree on this point.
This makes the ground tests of the HotZone equipment all the more important and any contracts for terrestrial installations not at all separate from eventual strat rollout (like some were suggesting with the Russian deal).
This is the best I can figure. I am not doing this to bash the company or to say they haven't figured this out yet. I am a curios person and I enjoy puzzles. I was just trying to figure it out and thought others might have some input.
