<at USD 3.00/minute access charge here at the Marriott in Moscow, I must be productive with my thoughts ... >
Gidday Jay, right now I'm listening, via headphones for good sound quality, to Irwin Jacobs via cyberspace, lying on my couch with notebook computer with 80211 link to our mainframe which links by ADSL to cyberspace and thence to QUALCOMM's web site where there is a place to click to listen to Irwin Jacobs' latest presentation. qualcomm.com
While I'm doing that, I'm typing to Jay in Moscow who doesn't have mobility so has to pay an extorquerationate fee for a fixed hotel connection.
You obviously value cyberspace to be spending US$3 per minute [even for a short time]. You can do a lot better.
When QUALCOMM has got Globalstar going properly, you'll be able to upload a request direct from your mobile phone or data device, such as a Treo, to a Globalstar satellite, which will route the request to the IP identified server which will download your requested data via a high data rate satellite system such as Skybridge. The cost would be cents per minute, not dollars per minute and possibly as low as 20c per megabyte or less.
It sure is a remarkable world. Whether you are in Trinidad, Hong Kong, Beijing or Moscow, you are right there, pixelated on my screen.
This is big time stuff. 7 million Koreans swarming all over cyberspace via CDMA can't be wrong.
Happy travels,
Mqurice
PS: It would be nice to have a Bluetooth link to two hearing-aids for sterephonic sound instead of big headphones with a wire. But these things take time. |
