“And then eventually we did get a LEO service, which was really a game changer.”

Jay Schwarz, FCC Space Bureau Chief

Shared During CEC Fireside Chat

“[My family] moved to the farm that we live on right now in 2019, and when we moved there, we had very, very limited fixed wireless access from a very small provider. It did not work very well. And then we experienced COVID. And COVID, did not go well for that situation. I actually would drive and sit in my truck outside of the local library and use the Wi-Fi. And so, I would do work calls there and sometimes spend hours a day. We did eventually get a little bit better fixed wireless service. And then eventually we did get a LEO service, which was really a game changer. And we went from inability to have streaming service in the evening, or inability to do a Teams call after probably 6:00 at night – because the networks, otherwise just got overloaded, and you couldn’t use them – to being in a situation where we never had to think about the internet again.”

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