Airborne Wireless Network (ABWN)

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Drugmanrx,

That is not how the system is being deployed. ABWN will be supplying wholesale carriers (Verizon, Time Warner, Cox, etc.) with bandwith that they can utilize for their customers. ABWN will not be communicating directly with end users.

It will work like this:

ABWN has transmitters/receivers mounted on aircraft that will communicate with independent (ABWN owned) ground stations as well as wholesale suppliers (Verizon, Time Warner, Cox, etc.) owned ground stations. These ground stations are how the data gets from the aircraft to the wholesale carriers. It will be invisible to the end user, data will still be supplied the same way it always has (cable modem, DSL, etc.) except that data rates should see a massive increase.

Hope this helps to clarify things.