On the road and out of 3G range? Try satellites. Mobile satellite internet access like StarBand and DirecWay are home-based solutions. Mobile rigs need specially approved mobile dishes provided by companies like Motosat, Swe-dish and Tachyon that cost about $5,000.
How about a building your own CubeSat? Many colleges and high schools do. Stanford’s CubeSat has the kit. They use amateur-satellite frequencies at 435 - 438 MHz, 260 - 270 MHz, 400 - 450 MHz, 400 - 410 MHz, 650 - 670 MHz, 830 850 MHz, 10.45 - 10.5 GHz, 76 - 81 GHz, 144 - 149 GHz, and 241 - 248 GHz.
LEO constellations like ICO and Teledisc are expensive. Perhaps interconnected “microsat swarms” with fractal arrays and light power could deliver smaller, cheaper…and geosynchronous satellite platforms. Smart antennas like Arraycomm, Flarion, Mesh Networks, BeamReach, NextNet and Navini Networks might be adopted for beam arrays in space. A Musenki box in a CubeSat form-factor. That’s the ticket. A dozen might be alpha-tested on rooftops interlinked with Navini’s CDMA. Beams on different towers might focus like a laser beam. Mauna Kea anyone?
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