US rolls out robotic broadband airship

April 13, 2005 | Source: The Register

US communications company Sanswire plans to deliver line-of-sight wireless broadband and mobile phone signals to an area the size of Texas from a “Stratellite.”
These geostationary, robotic airships, hovering at 65,000 feet above the Earth, will provide the low latency required for realtime birectional communications that is not available with satellites because of their distance.