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Sanswire 'stratellite' positioned as wireless alternative: company to use dirigibles to deliver broadband.(INNOVATORS)
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America's Network
- Article date:
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May 1, 2005
- Author:
- Poe, Robert
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Technological innovations with the potential to turn industries on their heads often face huge challenges in gaining commercial acceptance. The latest example comes from Sanswire, a subsidiary of Florida-based IP telephony provider GlobeTel Communications.
The company plans to turn communications topsy-turvy by using "stratellites," updated dirigibles, to relay cellular or other wireless transmissions among different points within a 200-mile-diameter footprint.
The company unveiled a near-complete 188-foot-long prototype in Southern California in mid-April. Launch of the first of the full-fledged commercial versions, which will range in length from 450 to 800 feet and ...