I think this is a better link: https://femtostar.com/
The idea sounds cool although it's not clear how much IoT users care about openness and privacy. Starlink is also going to set a pretty low price ceiling on midband services.
The idea sounds cool although it's not clear how much IoT users care about openness and privacy. Starlink is also going to set a pretty low price ceiling on midband services.
FemtoStar is perfectly usable as a traditional satellite communications system, but we're specifically interested serving a group of people who have not previously been satcom customers - that is, users more focused on FOSS and privacy, who, we hope, might see FemtoStar more as an improvement on the privacy concerns and proprietary software of terrestrial and satellite networks alike than as a spec-for-spec competitor with other FSS or MSS options.
We have found that the idea of 100%-FOSS, privacy-respecting, low-cost, medium-speed internet access even in the middle of nowhere, plus an open platform for custom services is appealing to a lot of people.