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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: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday February 28 2018, @04:16PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday February 28 2018, @04:16PM (#645218) Homepage
    Yes, I was trying to be vaguely neutral in my exposition, as I don't really care much now. Back in 2008 I was working for a company that was at the cutting edge, and, erm, no I didn't really care much then either! The gap between the different G generations was too great, and the fact that there were several intermediate steps between them where the top end of one was practically as good as the next step up clearly shows that they were completely arbitrary - pretty much designed to be marketting fodder, little more.
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