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0 pointsianburrell1y ago0 comments

The bandwidth will be small. I saw 2-5 Mbps for the whole cell covering a city. Devices will be limited to messages, small amounts of data, and voice.

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comboy1y ago· 1 in thread

But it's still a mobile phone transmission power (1W?) and then r^2. Distinguishing that from noise seems mind-boggling.

dzhiurgis1y ago

Really just makes one think what sort of capability military has.

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RoddaWallPro1y ago· 1 in thread

But just to clarify, because I'm also having a hard time imagining this, an LTE antenna in a cell phone can beam data to a satellite and have it picked up? Even at whatever low kbps? That is insane to me!

wmf1y ago

Yes. It's been demonstrated a few times.

stavros1y ago

That's still the difference between lost in the mountains and "my coordinates are X, Y".

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