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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (6863)10/12/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10852
 
<Can you explain to me the advantage Teledesic might provide over a
broadband geostationary system?>

I don't have much insight into this, but I know that Tdesic claims(ed?) that latency due to speed of light delays is a big problem for internet protocol based broadband on GEOs. Haven't checked in a while, but their web site used to feature a big paper on this problem, concluding that LEOs were the only way to solve this problem.