Comments on: Broadband Blimps are nothing but hot air http://gigaom.com/2005/07/13/broadband-blimps-are-nothing-but-hot-air/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2005/07/13/broadband-blimps-are-nothing-but-hot-air/#comment-105213 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:45:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/13/broadband-blimps-are-nothing-but-hot-air/#comment-105213 Just to be clear: the company behind “stratellites” is clearly a scam, but that doesn’t mean the idea couldn’t work. However, at a certain point this becomes like BPL — just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. If you really think about it in either case, you could come up with a better solution for the same amount of money. That said, there are currrently $100Bs being spent on suboptimal solutions because nobody did really think about it. So, who knows?

]]> By: IP Democracy's Best of the Blogs http://gigaom.com/2005/07/13/broadband-blimps-are-nothing-but-hot-air/#comment-105212 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:29:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/13/broadband-blimps-are-nothing-but-hot-air/#comment-105212 But How Do You Really Feel About It, Om?

Uber-blogger Om Malik carries a lot of swack in the sphere. Perhaps it’s because he doesn’t, um, mince words. Om on a techdirt item regarding those fanciful hot-air balloons designed to deliver broadband: Techdirt swats the “stratellites….

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