[walter_bishop]

Given the nature of shortwave propagation, I would suspect the delivered service will be less than promised. According to this document it utilizes a form of peer-to-peer cell networking over shortwave. I would suspect that with the increase of base stations there would be lots of contention for usable bandwidth. As someone once put it, you canna change the laws of physics.

"While connected to the existing infrastructure, the radio switches to base station mode for offering INDEPENDENT communication to other users in GLOBAL network as well"

http://hfindustry.com/meetings_presentations/presentation_ma...

btw: Whatever happened to that low earth orbit satellite system that was going to provide Internet anywhere on the planet.

[smkellat]

After reading that, it seems like it is going to be a low-throughput network. There's only so much space you can occupy with a signal between those band markers without conflicting with other spectrum users. Even if you multiplexed a couple conventional signals you'll still wind up below EDGE-type throughput.