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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by shaklee3 on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:02PM (#19784477)
No, it's impossible. Antenna theory dictates what the size of an antenna can perform at. Without significantly reducing the noise temperature of the antenna much farther than anything else out there, it will never happen. And noise temperature is pretty much guided by physics at this point.
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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by BenjiWiebe on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:06PM (#19784494)
He's saying we might soon have pizza-sized phones.
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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by shaklee3 on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:12PM (#19784525)
Ah, that's more likely :).
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