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Picking up the internet or mobile phone signal in space

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Theranged | 12:35 Fri 23rd Jul 2010 | Science
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Can this be done? If so just how far can away could you pick up the internet or a mobile phone signal?
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GSM phone signals run out at about 25 miles given ideal conditions
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25 miles outside the earths atmosphere?
25 from transmitter
About 3 miles off shore you tend to lose phone signal.
You might actually find that you could get a signal much further out than that if the transmitter was beaming a signal to your location, rather than broadcasting it in all directions. (You'd also need a decent aerial, preferably a dish, attached to the phone or whatever).

The Sky satellite transmitters, for example, operate at roughly the same power levels as the tungsten bulb in a desk lamp but they can be received over wide areas here on Earth, 22000 miles away.

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