Re: Sprint phone needed to perform "pervasive" computing -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Sprint phone needed to perform "pervasive" computing
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:06:15 -0600
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Carl Galgano wrote:

I wonder if there will ever be a service like satellite radio (and now I see
there is going to be a satellite TV service for cars/RVs like satellite
radio that will work when moving), for data.  That would be very cool, but I
suspect the latency delay would make it too slow...

There was the iridium satellite phone system a while back. I think some company salvaged it. With that you could use a satellite phone and modem.

James Rich

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