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Moon to have better mobile reception than our office by 2020

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Fraser MacInnes
on February 20, 2008
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iphoneinspaaaace_2.jpgIf any of you are getting plain sick of this ever more crowded, ever more polluted dumping site of a globe but worry about the lack of mobile reception on neighboring planets (to be fair there probably aren’t many of you facing this conundrum), then you’re in luck.

NASA and the British National Space Centre are planning to build a satellite system/phone network that will provide full four-bar signal coverage for colonists that will end up living in the base NASA wants to build at the south pole of the moon.

Don’t go packing your bags, mobile and charger quite yet however  as the base won’t be in operation until after the year 2020. Gives you time to prepare though, we imagine the shortlist is a tad on the competitive side.

(Via textually)



$10k prize for first long-distance call from the moon

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Chris Leonard
on September 26, 2007
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moon.jpgUS retailer YouNeverCall has announced a rather hair-brained competition to reward the first mobile call made from the surface of the moon.

The retailer said it would award a $10,000 prize for the first mobile call made from the moon, through a commercially available mobile phone, to YouNeverCall’s Los Angeles headquarters. Presumably the winner would have to pay the roaming charge themselves.

The competition is a fun attempt to usurp Google’s announcement this month that it would award $20m to the first private group who can successfully land a robotic rover on the moon’s surface by 31 December 2014.

YouNeverCall has decided to be more realistic with its competition though and set a deadline of 7 January 2015. Could be busy on the moon’s surface over the New Year period of 2015…

[From Slashphone]