alt Hacker NewsI love learning about pre-internet ways of transferring data on the back of other things.
I once worked for a radio station that made 90% of its revenue from carrying data feeds on subcarriers, and not from main music programs.
Because of the geographic location and size of the signal, it was a vital link between two major cities before planting fiber optic lines became cheap.
I’m looking forward to cell phones un-shackling themselves from telecom oligopolies through a mix of repurposed satellite uplink and where available: some FM spectrum downlink utilization.
Just stream me the weather, traffic, text msgs & some news stories that a TTS can read out to me.
Won’t work well for streaming a video but for most of us generally on wifi except out-of-doors, I can live with it.