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After searching for the mass of China's Guowang Internet-service larger satellites and finding nothing, I estimated it using ChatGPT. Si...

Elon Musk assured us that he would not stop the Starlink service in Ukraine . But, given his  feud with Trump , his  criticism of President ...

   “Elon, let me inside this thing, and I can fix it for you” (Image from this podcast ) In my own mind, I like to think of him as the perso...

Ukrainian drone boat with two Starlink terminals (source Oleg Kutkov) At 4:04 AM on February 26 Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister and Mi...

The first ten Guowang production satellites ( source ) In April 2020, The Chinese State Council's executive meeting declared information...

WELCOME community WiFi service is now available in Kenya and it might be a game changer like public access telecenters and WiFi hotspots wer...

SpaceX first departed from its uniform Starlink pricing policy when it  offered a reduced price for throttled service  in France two years a...

Relcom machine room. Kremvax, the micro-VAX shown here, linked Relcom to Finland and the outside world and the modems communicated within Th...

Post revised -- see  https://circleid.com/posts/20240821-russian-internet-pioneer-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison .

Potential Geesat applications ( source ) Chinese automobile conglomerate Geely has made significant strides since I last wrote about their ...