How the Iranian Government Shut Off the Internet

Re:How the Iranian Government Shut Off the Internet by grecy on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:23AM (#21595772)

I just spent a few days with the company Bivy [1] who make the satellite comms device Bivy Stick. The current one looks like an external battery pack, and people have said it's great to take into foreign countries like Afghanistan because Authorities have no idea.

You can send an receive text messages (and soon send emails) from anywhere on the planet. I played with it for a few days, it works great.

[1] https://www.bivystick.com/

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Re:How the Iranian Government Shut Off the Internet by dreamcompiler on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:56PM (#21598762)

It uses the Iridium network which means it's very, very slow. Fast enough for emergency SOS messages and perhaps tweets, but it's not what most people expect from "The Internet."

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Re:How the Iranian Government Shut Off the Internet by grecy on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:06PM (#21600228)

Certainly you can't browse "the Internet", but we were playing with it for a few days, and you can send and receive 140 character text messages in less than 30 seconds.

That's pretty nifty when you are a long, long way from cell service (I just drove all the way around Africa for 3 years) or you're in a country that has turned off the Internet.

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