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I had a friend who became seduced by several of those sailing youtube channels and decided to do an offshore cruise but first he needed to build his Dream Boat, his kids were young mostly preschool or thereabouts. I asked him what his primary goal was and he said to experience offshore cruising with his family. I told him to forget the dream boat and buy a well maintained going concern that was appropriately equipped then go. He brought a leopard 42 and off they went for 18 months around fiji, vanuatu Tonga etc. They had a ball then re-settled in Brisbane and sold the cat .....job done ! If h

Translation: this idea is still unproven and not ready to provide any service. Its not impossible, but has significant challenges due to being a passive device carried along on the stratospheric winds. As helpful as the Ai summaries sound, the robot is trained to maximise your usage by being be helpful rather than critical.

Kind of. The telcos are renting capacity on the Starlink constellation to transmit their NZ licensed LTE radio spectrum, this is spectrum they would usually transmit from a terrestrial cell tower. Specifically OneNZ took their Band3 (1800MHz) and contracted Starlink to transmit it from their satellites. SparkNZ have not published what they are using, but some sleuthing has determined it's Band 7, which is kind of odd for reasons I won't go into. This is why space comms works with existing handsets everyone has in their pocket Geostationary and blimp don't really work in the

We have been hotspotting for nearly a decade around the nz coast. No problem