Bandwidth costs. No telecom is giving it out for free, nor will Globetel. If some city wants to provide free access to its citizens, the city still have to pay. Or?
It's much cheaper and faster to use a Stratellite than towers. Also as technology changes (more bandwidth), it is much easier to change the setup of equipment installed on a Stratelitte than make changes to equipment installed on lots of towers.
And by the way, the most obvious use for Stratellites is in countries where the amount of infrastructure today is very limited. I think that providing the possibility to bring the rest of the world (apart fom USA, Europa and some asian countries) up to speed is a huge opportunity. Then when these services actually starts to be better than what is provided in the US, I think demand will rise also here.
Wouldn't it be funny to have lets say south american countries provide superior wireless internetaccess to it's citizens, and then the US and Europe not having it?
All the discussions about Wimax and how it's NOT going to change USA (as stated by the big telcos), will take a completely different direction once Wimax (or other wireless protocol) is available from the skies.
It's just we need the Strat to work. As long as we do not show a working Strat, it will be the same old game.
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