[196174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Javier J)
Sat Oct 7 14:07:55 2017
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From: Javier J <javier@advancedmachines.us>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 04:02:46 -0400
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
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@ Jean
Interesting stuff. Please keep this thread updated with info on that
initiative.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <
jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> I have not ound the official announcements, but the press is reporting
> that the FCC has granted Google rights to fly 30 of its "Loon" high
> altitude ballons to provide cellular cervice in Puerto Rico for up to 6
> months.
>
> (From my readings, there are glorified relays of ground based signals
> (which I assume some antennas have to be oriented to face up towards the
> balloons).
>
> The Loon will use spectrum allocated to the carriers they relay (and got
> their OK)
>
> Altitude 20km. (so not sure they need 30 balloons, 1 probably suffices
> to cover all of PR).
>
> I suspect more concrete info will be coming.
>
