News from across the pond over in England. High altitude balloons and unmanned solar-powered aircraft may be the key to rural broadband, if a major European Union project is successful. Over the next year, Capanina intends to develop aerial links capable of delivering up to 120 megabits per second to anywhere in the world, transmitted from aerial platforms hovering up to 22 kilometres above the ground.
Dr David Grace, principal scientific officer of the project and member of the Communications Research Group at the University of York, said that the aerial platform approach had some unique advantages. "802.16 may have a 70-kilometre range, but that has to be line of sight. The chances are there'll be a building in the way, but you'll always have line of sight to a high altitude platform,"
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