{"id":3198,"date":"2020-08-01T01:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T08:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2020-08-03T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:31:17","slug":"a3-the-future-of-satellite-to-mobile-phone-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/08\/01\/a3-the-future-of-satellite-to-mobile-phone-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"A3 &#8211; The Future of Satellite to Mobile Phone Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly before our section of ETEC 523 began in the spring there was a significant breakthrough in satellite to cellphone communications. Recalling some of the recent stories I heard from my students about growing up without cell reception in the Outback of Australia, in coastal BC towns or in rural Hawaii I wanted to explore this development further.  For my A3 forecasting project I examined the implications of this exciting new milestone and provide some predictions on how this breakthrough might be applied to rural development, skills training and distance education. To present my thoughts I have created a simple website on the Wix platform because of its mobile-first design functions.  Please view the site on your phone or tablet and feel free to share any feedback you might have on this page.  <a href=\"https:\/\/j-tooze.wixsite.com\/satellite-phones\">Here is a link to my site.<\/a> Enjoy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before our section of ETEC 523 began in the spring there was a significant breakthrough in satellite to cellphone communications. Recalling some of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/08\/01\/a3-the-future-of-satellite-to-mobile-phone-communications\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A3 &#8211; The Future of Satellite to Mobile Phone Communications<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32739,"featured_media":3200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a3-mobile-forum","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}