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Well, so far they only promised to. So, probably it’ll be done the same way that Teslas could self drive, across the county, unassisted in 2017
> Well, so far they only promised to. Apple’s solution works today. Consumers are using it. This is mentioned in the article.
This will hopefully give Canadians real options for mobile phone plans. It will be "illegal" because our telecom monopoly (oligopoly) writes the laws, but presumably with a US address it will be possible, like it was with satellite dishes, to get a proper phone on a network that doesn't gouge you. I'll be curious what the monopoly does to try and fight it.
The satellites will surely have a certain amount of beam steering capability. (You need beamforming for this to work at all, I think.) If you're too far from the border, you may not be able to trick the system into believing you're in the US. (A lot depends on the implementation ... and what governments demand in terms of compliance.)
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The satellites will surely have a certain amount of beam steering capability. (You need beamforming for this to work at all, I think.) If you're too far from the border, you may not be able to trick the system into believing you're in the US. (A lot depends on the implementation ... and what governments demand in terms of compliance.)
Would that be, like, one beam per connected user, or, like, city?
This sounds to me like a single, global, commercial IMSI catcher that can track international movement of cell phones.. I guess the question is how good their triangulation will be, but I imagine the back-end data market for this will be fairly lucrative for them. And they don't really need any countries permission to _listen_ from space... .. .
I find it hard to believe that there aren't already intelligence satellites up there listening to as much RF as possible everywhere all the time.
It'll be like a cool guy is just following you around 24/7 making sure you know what to buy and do and think
Huh, I wonder how they manage to pick up the tiny amount of RF energy a normal phone can output from that far away, and through the noise of literally millions of other phones in the satellite's field of view. Gotta be some real weird RF voodoo happening in there.
This sounds to me like a single, global, commercial IMSI catcher that can track international movement of cell phones.. I guess the question is how good their triangulation will be, but I imagine the back-end data market for this will be fairly lucrative for them. And they don't really need any countries permission to _listen_ from space... .. .
I find it hard to believe that there aren't already intelligence satellites up there listening to as much RF as possible everywhere all the time.
This sounds to me like a single, global, commercial IMSI catcher that can track international movement of cell phones.. I guess the question is how good their triangulation will be, but I imagine the back-end data market for this will be fairly lucrative for them. And they don't really need any countries permission to _listen_ from space... .. .
I find it hard to believe that there aren't already intelligence satellites up there listening to as much RF as possible everywhere all the time.
Same size satellite bus as the largest class of things you would see in geostationary orbit (approx 6500 kg and the size of a school bus) but in high inclination orbits around 600 km.
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Well, so far they only promised to. So, probably it’ll be done the same way that Teslas could self drive, across the county, unassisted in 2017
> Well, so far they only promised to. Apple’s solution works today. Consumers are using it. This is mentioned in the article.
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> Well, so far they only promised to. Apple’s solution works today. Consumers are using it. This is mentioned in the article.
Apple's solution is making use of special features in the radio package. The post states unmodified phones.