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Moon to Get 4G Network

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @12:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the big-roaming-charges dept.

PastTense writes:

Vodafone and Nokia have joined forces to bring 4G to a barren, characterless expanse (no, we don't mean Surrey suburbia). From 2019 LTE will be available on the moon.

The network is intended to support a mission by Berlin company PTScientists, along with Vodafone Germany and Audi, to achieve the first privately funded Moon landing.

Mission to the Moon is due to launch in 2019 from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Vodafone's network will be used to set up the Moon's first 4G network, connecting two Audi Lunar Quattro rovers to a base station in the Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module (ALINA).

The base station should be able to broadcast 4G using the 1800 MHz frequency band and send back live HD video feed of the Moon's surface, which will be broadcast to a global audience via a deep space link.

4G found on Moon

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by tftp on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:58AM (1 child)

    by tftp (806) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:58AM (#644961) Homepage
    You may be not alone, but in reality cell phones are very much like communicators combined with tricorders. They will be quite useful there. Comms (voice+data), cameras, maps, sensors, software for local processing... Most of the hate toward smartphones is really about stupid users doing stupid things that irritate or endanger others.
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Arik on Wednesday February 28 2018, @04:44AM

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @04:44AM (#644972) Journal
    "Most of the hate toward smartphones is really about stupid users doing stupid things that irritate or endanger others."

    And one of the things they do is accept broken-by-design trash hardware, ensuring that manufacturers see no need to produce anything else.
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