On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 10:55, Frederic Muller <fred@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
(I google searched and didn't really find much) So I have a friend who
asked me what his options were for this situation:
1. He lives in a valley (so there are mountains around his place...)
with no phone connection
Is he off gird or is there POTS and electric power service?
2. He said in altitude he can get signal, which would require to have a
(flying) ballon with a phone attached to it and then maybe a cable
coming down? But it can't stay up at all times
3. The "city" is at 9km from his place
4. He would like to have Internet
He should talk to his congress-person's staff. Internet providers are getting subsidies to service
rural areas without "high speed" access, but have been claim they provide service if they have one customer in your census block. Current FCC thinks a cell phone data plan is good enough. I've heard that a call from congressional staff sometimes causes a vendor to realize that your friend is entitled to internet service at his location.
So no service provider delivers the service to his place.
If anyone has some suggestions to direct my searches that would be nice.
In a time before smart phones, I owned a cottage more than 9km from a town. It had a party line over bare wire and glass knob, but telco cut down trees along the road to install fiber for a trans-Atlantic link.
Two approaches that have worked for others, but are often sensitive to weather conditions:
High gain antenna (wireless signal booster) for his cell phone or a dedicated data device. The cell phone versions are used in places like industrial warehouses so cell phones can be used inside metal buildings distant from a cell tower. The dedicated data versions use a SIM and are used with a high gain antenna to provide internet access (generally for security equipment, point-of-sale terminals, and instant tellers). There are vendors who will come to your site with a
high-gain antenna to check if a signal is available.
Some people in similar situations find a location where a) high-speed internet is available and b) is line of site visible from the site that needs internet. Get the owner to let you pay for an new internet connection and install a high-gain antenna. This can be done with wifi and homebrew antennas, or there are commercial versions.
George N. White III
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