Skylinc - balloon based wireless broadband for rural Britain

Mon, 26 May 2003 15:21:00 -0400
/technology

It requires a directed dish so is not mobile, but it’s potential to offer 10MB/s anywhere should still shake up the broadband market.

The BBC have a piece but Skylinc’s website is much richer on info:

Each LIBRA super-cell has a MASSIVE coverage of 2,000 sq miles (equivalent coverage of up to 2,000 traditional wireless base stations)

87% of UK SME business locations will be accessible from only 18 LIBRA platforms

It looks like it was specifically developed to solve the problem of getting rural businesses online:

SkyLINC’s product development has been funded by UK Government Department of Trade and Industry grants and private US aerospace investment.