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Around 3 billion people still aren't online. Legacy telecom hasn't fixed that.
Our founder and CEO Micky Watkins joined The Money Signal to talk about how a people-owned network can, starting with a 150-person village in Zanzibar.
Full episode out now on The Money Signal.

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Morning routine: coffee, then the AirNode dashboard.

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@Aloha_Nodes @WorldMobilers

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Not approved yet. The FCC only accepted the application for review last week, and petitions are due 1 December.

And look who's objecting: AT&T and Verizon. A new player breaking into spectrum the big carriers have held for decades is hard to see as bad news for anyone trying to break the carrier model.

And look at what it actually is: 7 MHz up, 7 MHz down. Shared across a satellite beam that covers a huge area, that's a coverage layer. Great for a text from the middle of nowhere. Not a whole town streaming at once.

Capacity still comes from radios close to people. That's what we build.

From satellites, one beam covers a very wide area, and everyone in it shares that 7 MHz downlink. Starlink's current direct to cell service is texts, some apps and basic data, not full broadband. 7 MHz won't change that much: it's coverage, not capacity.

Good question for @MrTelecoms on tomorrows space : https://t.co/DGOcAUdW7y i am pretty sure he will cover anyway.

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Community update, live on X Spaces tomorrow 🎙️

Thursday 12 November
5pm UK · 12pm New York · 9am LA

Micky, Mike, Andy and the team on Pakistan, Frontier, Stratospheric, the US and what's next.

https://t.co/bIfkcfdGHT

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Every time you make a call, someone gets paid. On World Mobile, part of that goes to the AirNode Operators whose AirNodes carry the network.

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@NMumphreak @AnandArupam A year in and the family's switching? That's the review we'd frame. Thanks for bringing them along 💛

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@ShoshinNodes Bars come and go. The bill always finds you.

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@_itsamouraa Look at you. The first one always stings, the taxes and fees line especially.

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@Heyabhi29 Every phone company quietly counts on that usage screen never getting opened.

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@iheartjohnni Best raise you'll get all year, and nobody had to approve it 🙌

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@CirieRogers Welcome to the club. No activation fee to join.

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@Ambitioussgal What did they do? Price lock that wasn't, or a fee with a brand new name?

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@BillionBus All those calls and he'd still have to threaten to leave before they offered him a loyalty discount.

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Phone plans from $15. No contract. Apparently this needed to be a feature.

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Who gets paid when you use the internet? Usually a carrier or internet provider. Sometimes it's David.
He's an AirNode Operator. Here's 30s on how it works.

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@AdamBarks1 @MrTelecoms Khan did it justice. Glad it landed, Adam.

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“I connect people.”

So does half of LinkedIn, @MrTelecoms. What do you actually do?

“I put radios on people’s rooftops.”

Glad Khan asked twice.

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@Danientes Appreciate it. More clips from that episode are on the way.

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Around 3 billion people still aren't online. Legacy telecom hasn't fixed that.
Our founder and CEO Micky Watkins joined The Money Signal to talk about how a people-owned network can, starting with a 150-person village in Zanzibar.
Full episode out now on The Money Signal.

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@BeamNode Noted. Someone tell Micky to pack sunscreen and a mic.

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@kaweahman @CloverNodes Your router's been carrying the team this whole time.

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@EarthNodeStrat @hopenothype_io Loyalty is the only thing in telecom that loses value every year.

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The best deal your carrier has is the one they find when you try to leave. Strange place to keep it.