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Story: Balloon goes up for rural broadband

Posted by: Lindsey Annison (Saturday 24 January 2004, 2:41 PM)

High Altitude Platforms are 10 years away (BT think 2013 is realistic for their HAP's)

BUT, SkyLinc did their trails of Low Altitude Platforms in late summer 2002 with a huge amount of success. So, we could have low altitude platforms up right now and offering rural (and urban) areas the backhaul so desperately needed on a fi-wi model eg fibre-wireless, using SkyLinc aerostats.

Good to see SkyLinc are involved in this initiative, but it seems to me that it's just a way for SkyLinc to share what they already know with others who don't so a few more research papers can be printed.

Why not use the money to fund SkyLinc to actually do what they have already tested? This is another unnecesary delay depriving rural and urban UK of connecting to true broadband NOW.