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