I'm always surprised that cheap satellite text messaging has never become a thin...

gandalfian on Oct 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine

I'm always surprised that cheap satellite text messaging has never become a thing. All these new cheaper satellites, you would think it would be the ideal low bandwidth application. But lower the prices and greater abundance never quite happened.

Somewhere in a box I still have a 802.11b wifi router with a built in 33.6kb dial up modem, which was the perfect thing at the time.

dboreham on Oct 11, 2018 [–]

You'd also need satellite spectrum, which is not cheap and easy to get. There's no unlicensed satellite band.