#the tipping point for creating that new temp position was no one in my department was willing to go back to working 1 evening shift a week

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Time blindness is a bitch and might actually be one of my least favourite ADHD symptoms. And I hate the not doing anything before My One Important Task so much that have developed the sleep through it method for my most frequent One Important Task of going to work on time. I deliberately only wake up 45 minutes before work. I live a 6-8 minute drive away so it leaves me with precisely enough time to get ready and get out the door while leaving absolutely zero time for anything else.

I do this because I’ve learned a very important lesson in life, I become less able to estimate time properly the more of it I have. You know what happens when I wake up an hour before work? I’m at risk of being late because I got distracted or miscalculate how much time something takes during the 15 minutes I wasn’t completely task oriented. And this risk increases the longer I am awake before work. So I just sleep in and have that free time after work instead when I don’t have places to remember to be.

My coworkers are constantly puzzled by the fact that I, an adult, have a 3am to 11am sleep schedule “like a teenager on summer holiday” but like?? I’m getting 8 hours of sleep without having to battle my natural sleep cycle and I’m at work on time, so really I feel like I’m winning. And they’re winning because they don’t have to work the afternoon/evening shifts that they hate because there’s someone (me) willing to take all of the “worst shifts” in what they view as some weird noble sacrifice.

I see a lot of people joking about the adhd thing of "I have a appointment/phone call at 3pm, guess I won't do anything all day!"

But no one seems to make the connection that it's a time blindness thing. One of the symptoms of ADHD is not having a good and accurate sense of time. And not doing stuff prior to an event with a hard deadline is an obvious coping mechanism for that.

Can I go to the store? It's 10am and the appointment is at 3pm. How long does going to the store take? An hour? Three hours? Five hours? I DON'T KNOW!

I get anxious trying to do things before appointments because I'm aware that I don't know how long those things take, and that if I think I do, I may be very wrong. Too often I've been like "hey I can walk to the corner store and grab a drink, that'll take like 15 minutes!" and then an hour later I get back and whoops my rice has burnt.

Plus there's also the fact that ADHD people know that motivation and focus is a two-edged sword.

Like, let's say you decide to play a video game. You've got time, you can pause/save whenever, so this should be a perfect fit to make good use of your waiting-time. So you start playing and WHOOPS you get really focused for some reason today (because people with ADHD do not get to pick when their brain decides to focus) and the next time you look at the clock it's 2:49 and you haven't showered or dressed and the appointment is 30 minutes away. Fuck. (you could have set an alarm, but now you're asking people with the forgetting-things-and-time-ignoring condition to remember it set alarms)

And with motivation, it can be almost worse. Instead of playing a game, you so something useful or creative. You clean your room or fix your plumbing or write a story or draw a picture. And suddenly it's great. Your brain is firing on all cylinders. You've got all the motivation you can ask for, and you are FLYING. the ideas are brilliant, your hands are nimble, you're getting stuff done you've been putting off for weeks or months. And then the alarm goes off. Time to go to your appointment. Fuck.

You drive there, your brain still full of ideas and plans. But by the time you get back, the motivation is gone. You may still have the ideas but you don't have the drive to write them down. You can't force yourself to do it. Your sink is still in pieces. Your room is half-cleaned, and you have to shove all the sorted clothes into one big bin just so you have somewhere to sleep. You've left things half finished again, in a cycle that has been repeating your whole fucking life. It seems sometimes that nothing ever gets finished.

So next time you don't even start. There's not time. You've been burnt too many times. Why add another half-completed project to your pile of shame?

My point is that people seem to be going "lol I can't do anything all day if I have an appointment at 3pm" like this is a quirky "oh I'm so scatterbrained!" weirdness they alone have, and not a major complication of a disabling mental illness.

(and that's not even getting into the secondary effects. If you know that having an appointment ruins your whole damn day, you're going to avoid them. Even when it's things like "going to that party" or "meeting your friends for a drink/game" or "going to a movie with that cute girl from your math class". Things you should enjoy. Things that'd help you be social. Things that make you feel human.)

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The Teamsters Announce Coordinated Nationwide Project to Unionize Amazon

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the country's largest and most powerful unions, has said in an official resolution obtained by Motherboard that unionizing and building worker power at Amazon is the top priority moving forward. The announcement comes on Prime Day, one of Amazon's busiest days of the year.

"The Teamsters will build the types of worker and community power necessary to take on one of the most powerful corporations in the world and win," said Randy Korgan, the Teamster's National Amazon Director, in a 26-minute video on "the Amazon Project" obtained by Motherboard, that will be played at the Teamsters convention on Thursday. 

At their virtual convention on Thursdaywe, Teamster delegates from roughly 500 local Teamsters unions will also receive a copy of the resolution, which will receive a vote on Thursday, and is expected to pass resoundingly.

The resolution states the Teamsters plan to create a special Amazon Division, specifically to aid Amazon workers in unionizing and defending standards in the logistics industry—and will fully fund the project. 

If implemented, the project will be the most ambitious and focused endeavor so far in the United States to organize the fiercely anti-union retail behemoth. Since its founding in 1994, Amazon has kept unions out of its workforce and is on track to become the country's largest employer within the next year or two. The Teamsters have 1.4 million members in the United States and Canada.

"We've been working on this for quite some time—well before Bessemer broke out," Randy Korgan, Teamsters National Director for Amazon, told Motherboard, referring to the unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama that Amazon thwarted earlier this year. 

Randy Korgan, National Amazon Director at the Teamsters, who was appointed in 2020, speaks at a picket at the site of a future Amazon fulfillment center in Oxnard, California in February. (Teamsters)

Since 2016, various departments within the Teamsters have been tracking Amazon's growth and impact and speaking to thousands of workers to develop the best strategies for organizing Amazon workers, according to the resolution. At the convention, the Teamsters will declare a sharper, unified approach across the Teamsters International, 500 local unions and dozens of joint councils. 

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

The Teamsters—which represents workers across the logistics industry, including warehousing, package delivery, freight, airline, and food distribution—sees itself as a natural fit for organizing Amazon. "We have an intrinsic knowledge in the industry," Korgan said. "We understand transportation and logistics companies that are only motivated by profit will make changes that always end in workers losing. There’s been one unified organization for those workers and that’s been Teamsters members and the Teamsters union as a whole." 

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Earlier this year, following an intense union-busting campaign led by Amazon management and hired consultants, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama voted against unionizing in a landslide defeat for the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which ignited a wave of interest among Amazon workers from New York City to Iowa City in forming unions and having a say in their wages, workplace safety protections, productivity requirements, and rest time. 

With the Amazon Project, the Teamsters are taking a different approach that doesn't rely on the traditional National Labor Review Board election process that allows employers to run sophisticated anti-union campaigns and involves the task of running elections warehouse by warehouse. 

Instead the Teamsters plan to focus on a series of pressure campaigns involving work stoppages, petitions, and other collective action to push Amazon to recognize a union and bargain over working conditions. This tactic mirrors how the Teamsters organized its first members, horse drivers, grave haulers, and beer wagon drivers, who did not have union rights in the early twentieth century, using shop floor strikes, city-wide strikes, and other mass collective action in the streets.  

"We could have been the first Bessemer, but we chose not to go down the path of an NLRB election for the reasons that were validated in the Bessemer union election," Korgan said. "At the same time, the Bessemer workers' message was heard by millions of workers in their position who realized, 'Oh there's something I can do about this.’ The list is very long in how workers can seek justice on the job. The NLRB is not the only way." 

The Teamsters hold a convention every five years where delegates across the United States and Canada vote to set a new agenda for the union. This year's convention will focus on the Amazon Project. The project has five main components, according to the convention video obtained by Motherboard—educating and engaging its current union members, organizing Amazon workers, engaging the public, antitrust enforcement, industry pressure, and global solidarity. 

The Teamsters would not go into detail about the funding or timeline for the Amazon Project, but said Teamster International, local unions, and dozens of regional joint councils have "committed tremendous resources to this." Around the country, members are already participating in volunteer organizing training and education sessions related to the Amazon Project, and will continue to do so in the coming years. These trainings focus on how Amazon degrades pay and working conditions across the logistics industry, the history of worker struggles that led to the formation of Teamsters, and how Teamsters members can organize and engage Amazon workers. 

This volunteer organizing program, which was developed by Korgan in Southern California and is the model for the Amazon Project's worker education program, is based on the premise that Amazon workers often belong to the same communities, families, and neighborhoods as Teamsters union members—and should leverage those connections to organize Amazon. 

A Teamsters member picketing at a work stoppage in Oxnard, California in February targeting an Amazon warehouse development. (Teamsters)

"I have a son who worked at Amazon and a cousin who works at Amazon. I really see Amazon how they're in a position where your hands are tied and you have management not treating you fairly and you’re not getting your fair share of the pie," said Donnell Jefferson, a forklift operator at TForce Logistics in Memphis, Tennessee and a Teamsters union member. 

Jefferson helped unionize his worksite in 2008 and got a $4 raise. He now makes $29.08 an hour and says his treatment from managers improved with a union contract. He joined the volunteer program to help other workers organize.

"My young cousin [who works at Amazon] always calls me asking for a loan," he said. "I don't mind but she shouldn’t be in a position where she has to live with her mom and borrow money. They ought to be able to get better wages and healthcare and take care of their family. I struggled before I unionized but it's changed my life." 

"I do volunteer organizing because I feel Amazon workers should have what I have," said Robert Martinez, a UPS driver and member of Teamsters Local 22 in Ontario, California who participates in the volunteer organizing program. Martinez, who is 42 years old, earns $39.23 an hour as a yard shifter, and receives a pension and healthcare benefits. 

"I’m here to educate workers on their right to organize to stand up to employers," he continued. "I have talked to Amazon drivers when I run into them. They're overworked and are not employees of Amazon. One day when I'm out there on a street I hope I am able to greet an Amazon driver and know he’s in a union and he’s getting paid like he should be." 

As a point of comparison, Amazon delivery drivers in Southern California earn $15 or $16 an hour. As Motherboard has previously reported, Amazon frequently touts its $15 an hour minimum wage, while positioning itself against Walmart and other retail jobs, where workers are typically paid much less.  But in reality, Amazon is driving down wages in the warehouse and delivery industries. 

Even with the benefits and protections of a union, Teamsters members, particularly at UPS and other logistics companies, say they've seen their working conditions deteriorate as Amazon has expanded its reach in the parcel delivery sector. 

They cite higher delivery quotas, more weekend and holiday shifts, unpredictable schedules, and a greater reliance on temps and contractors. Motivated by improving these worsening conditions, UPS and other unionized logistics workers are joining the effort to organize Amazon workers. 

"Quotas are going up. Astronomical figures. We've seen a massive increase in Amazon packages," Anthony Rosario, a UPS driver in Brooklyn and a shop steward at Teamsters Local 804 who has been in the union for 27 years, told Motherboard. "Industry standards are being diminished that we fought for for decades. They're forcing people to work holidays and weekends. [UPS] is bending to Amazon's competition."

Activists with San Bernardino Airport Communities, a community group with ties to the Teamsters, stops Amazon traffic at action in the Inland Empire, California. (San Bernardino Airport CommunitiesAnthony Victoria)

Unlike the Bessemer union drive, which went public a few months into the campaign, the Teamsters are keeping much of their internal strategy under wraps in order to avoid Amazon's union busting campaigns. 

Still, the Teamsters has been publicly engaging in a community pressure campaign in California's Inland Empire, where Amazon is the largest private employer and has at least 14 Amazon fulfillment centers, to implement a community benefits agreement that would mandate that a new Amazon Air Regional AirHub pay prevailing wages and agree to a zero-emissions plan. Earlier this year, USA Today reported that the union has been organizing hundreds of delivery drivers at two warehouses in Iowa. 

"Every region must understand the systems that are at play," said Korgan in the video that will be shown at the convention on Thursday. "If [Amazon] workers are organizing independently, the Teamsters will help. If workers are not organizing, Teamsters will get it started. Our union has been the leading expert on how to create good career jobs and it's time Amazon workers know this." 

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The Value of Advocacy for Higher Ed: A Discussion With Western Michigan University

Sprout All Star Elite, Josh Kohnert, is a Senior Social Media and Web Specialist for the Development and Alumni Relations at Western Michigan University. He spoke with Bambu about how he helped take the Office of Development and Alumni Relations Instagram community from 200 followers to roughly 10,000 followers, his work on connecting with alumni and current students via social and the benefits of advocacy in higher education.

How did you get started at WMU?

I am an alumnus. I went to grad school here at Western for the higher education and student affairs program. At the time, my mentor and supervisor was really big into using Twitter to network. The student affairs field—isn’t that big, but there is a huge social media presence: weekly chats, ongoing discussions and a lot of resources being shared. I found that fascinating.

Pretty soon all of my research when I was going through my grad program was geared toward social media in higher education. My program chair was also the department chair and during my job search one day she called me in and said, “I have an idea.”

I was hired right after graduation for a year temp position, where I started two of the departments in the college’s social presence. They still use it now to recruit and share resources with their students.

What were your biggest challenges in building a social presence from scratch?

We really pushed the personal connections. Being physical, being out there. As much we recruit online, a lot of our work is done at our events or getting to campus events. Our office identifies social as the gateway to connect with our future alumni, A.K.A. our current students, so I’m constantly plugging us physically into campus events throughout the year. Our presence is pretty well known. Students know who we are, they know what we do and then they’re connected and engaged the most on social media.

@Raeann_Berry22 Thanks for the follow, Paige! Go Broncos! ^GLM pic.twitter.com/NHytio8mWY

— MyWMU (@MyWMU) November 28, 2016

You’re forever affiliated with your institution. So being able to connect and share stories, share successes, from your institution out to the alumni and then alumni hearing that across to each other—it just maintains that relationship between you, the alumni and your institution. It keeps the story going.

How do you measure success?

Right now we’re really heavy in the alumni relations portion of our office. If we’re going to do a campaign to build the audience, we set a goal for a certain number of connections and see if we hit that goal—and then just day-to-day, month-to month, we actually track how many likes, comments, shares our posts are getting. Are people engaged with the content that we’re sharing—things like that. We’ve done some giving aspects for students and those have been pretty successful—we shoot out a goal dollar amount and see how close we get to it.

What are some best practices for fostering advocacy among professors and faculty?

For the faculty—even though they have crazy schedules and they’re all different, they all come together at some point. So finding those department meetings where you can get in and talk becomes pretty important. Also finding those professors who are active. For example, we have a couple of communications professors who are very, very active on social media. We want to tap on their shoulder and say, “You guys reach an audience, we’ve got some pretty good content, would you mind every once in a while sharing them?” So they do it on their own. They want to reach out to their students and so it’s just like any other relationship building. I’ve come to learn there’s really no secret—it’s finding the right tool to use and the right method to use.

Do you have any presences in any major Midwest cities of alumni? How do you connect with them and get them to host events and share volunteering opportunities?

Most of our alumni fall into four different regions: Metro Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Chicago. Two to four times a year we host events at local bars in those towns. We invite our alumni to come out and reconnect. We restarted and reamplified it a couple of years ago and it’s taken off.

Get ready Broncos!

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We’ve seen 400-500 of our alumni in each region over the course of a year. That gives us the time to physically connect but always close—and say, you know, you can stay connected with us throughout the whole year on social media. With that, we’ll use the Facebook ads and digital postcards—it’s mixed-marketing.

Do alumni advocate for you on social informally?

Very informally. We’re looking at trying to formalize and build brand ambassadors this year.

Within that, do you have a plan for identifying those ambassadors?

We have over 200,000 alumni and my accounts are 10% of that—5% sometimes. So it’s forever growing and connecting and bringing everyone together. At the same time, it’s highlighting those that could do it for us and acknowledging that they exist and motivate them to further share. What social channels do you see your alumni most active on?

Facebook definitely has our older alumni and Instagram is our younger alumni. Twitter is across the board—it’s the middle-ground for everyone. But our current students are very well-connected to us on Instagram.

How does your office use SnapChat to connect?

We launched our Snapchat on April Fool’s day. We thought it would be great—like, “April Fools? Follow to find out.” So a lot of people followed us and with every new follower we sent them a photo, like, “This isn’t a joke, welcome to our Snapchat.”

https://twitter.com/MyWMU/status/715931800690753537/photo/1

So with that, I’ve explored filters and have successfully built two filters on our campus. People send Snapchat messages to us all the time. We reply back to everything.

Where do you believe the biggest opportunities exist for advocacy and higher ed?

It’s untapped opportunities. Higher ed is behind the other industries in terms of practices. Right now, social media is nonexistent or really slow across. You’ve got some major hitters—your bigger institutions—but for most institutions, they don’t think about it. Being able to look at those who can speak on your behalf and share on your behalf—it’s an extra force to help you out. Because trying to start it up on your own seems like a daunting task. If you have people who have a strong affinity for you and for your institution, use it. It’s a great resource. Right now it is just really untapped.

Final thoughts on fostering advocacy with current and former students?

Advocacy is like building an empire. It starts off by taking one little village at a time and then just quickly snowballs into something much larger. With every one little connection, you’re adding so much more. People in higher ed. look at this and say, “I can’t, there’s no way we can do this, it seems like it’s too daunting and too big,” but you just have to start with one person at a time. I can’t believe how quickly we’ve gone from 200 Instagram followers to roughly 10,000 Instagram followers in two years.

Being in higher ed., people have an affinity to you. That relationship is a lot easier than you might think, in creating those advocates—they’re already advocates for you because they like you. It’s just being able to tap into that—that’s the hard part.

A version of this article originally appeared on Bambu

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SpaceX details plans to release lots of internet satellite

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SpaceX details plans to release lots of internet satellite

In November of 2016, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to operate this constellation of non-geostationary satellites (NGS). And earlier this week, the US Senate Committee on Commerce. Science and Transportation convened a hearing to discover this thought for subsequent-generation telecommunications services.

The hearing was titled, “Investing in America’s Broadband Infrastructure: Exploring Ways to Reduce Barriers to Deployment”. In the course of things, the committee heard from representatives of presidency and enterprise who spoke approximately the high-quality methods to provide streamlined broadband get admission to (especially in rural areas), the necessary infrastructure, and how to encourage personal funding. Of those the committee heard from, Ms. Patricia Cooper – VP of Satellite Government Affairs for SpaceX – turned into accessible to underscore the business enterprise’s vision. As she said:

“SpaceX sees the widespread call for high-speed broadband in the United States and international. As the Committee is aware, tens of millions of Americans outside of limited city areas lack primary, reliable access. Furthermore, even in urban regions, a majority of Americans lacks extra than a single constant broadband issuer from which to select and can are searching for additional competitive options for the high-velocity provider.”

How Strong are MotoSat High-Speed Internet Satellite Antennas? If you purchase an antenna for High-Speed Internet there is simplest one famous corporation available which makes a reliable one for motor homes and that is MotoSat. Fortunately, I changed into one of the first Beta Testers of the MotoSat Broadband Motor Home Internet High-Speed Satellite Systems and we put it on top of our Company’s Mobile Command Center and traveled to every metropolis inside the Continental United States with it.

Recently, I did every other Beta Test, you would possibly name it a wind-tunnel test. I unnoticed to position my antenna down and drove a hundred and fifteen miles at about 55-miles according to an hour. This is the equivalent of setting the antenna in a wind tunnel with 55 miles consistent with hour winds. Luckily and to my pride, the antenna went unscathed and consequently if you are wondering how sturdy are that antenna, you would possibly suppose extra in terms of Tropical Storm or Gail Force Winds, in place of your regular storms.

Boy, I sure am satisfied I picked MotoSat for my antenna, I very tons doubt the alternative corporations, which make the lesser fashions can compete with this reliability. No wonder they’re so picky with which RV Centers are allowed to end up their sellers. Well, this is my motorhome tip for the day. So in case, you are asking yourself; How Strong are MotoSat High-Speed Internet Satellite Antennas? Well, the solution is strong sufficient. Consider this in 2006.

Beta Testing First Mobile Internet Satellite Broadband, Part I Being on the street has its benefits; the liberty is the largest one. One drawback turned into the Internet Service, but having achieved lots look at at the mobile Internet Satellite Systems and future technology; I was capable of growing to be a beta tester of the MotoSat device in 1999. I have used the device ever since.

My business enterprise, the Car Wash Guys had joined forces with a Strategic Alliance of GM Hughes Satellite Division to beta check the First Fully Self contained, absolutely Networked Mobile Corporate Office, taking advantage of the newest in WiFi technology. We have been the primary in the global to have this powerful skills which at the time almost blew away the Pentagon’s Performance with their seventy-seven million dollar investment and Iridium Bailout.

Mobile Corporate Offices are the Wave of the future, where Network Centric Warfare (Net-Centric) within the market mixed with strategic cellular command centers used to create a community of networks, in an effort to in the end dominate all of their market sectors. Corporate Giants are slowly getting to know the sport is converting. And we are the ones coaching them. We are the leaders in technology and they will learn the hard way. Car Wash Guys are main everybody’s enterprise this time. As some distance as the auto wash industry is involved we left them inside the dust a decade in the past. Today we use 20 instances less water, a 3rd of the hard work and spend much less than a tenth of the capital to do it. We now have an awful lot larger fish to fry as we move for the gold. To work with this era you must flow your enterprise at the rate of the idea.

We at our Bravo studies group of WashGuys had been studying the latest in satellite technologies. Most of our recent research have been on satellite records transmissions and as many of you understand we’ve got emerge as very informed over the years with satellite tv for PC communications, I took place to stay round the corner in Malibu from a physicist who worked at the Rockwell Research Center in Thousand Oaks CA. First, we would love to talk about simply facts transmission speeds and troubles related to relays and problems of safety of information while records jump from satellite to satellite tv for PC or from satellite tv for PC to floor. Also with the issues of the relay where any and all records can be recorded. As everybody knows the Pentagon bailed out the Iridium challenge, which is right seeing that we’ve learned so much from this. The 75 million dollar settlement helped pay the payments of seven million a month which include the 40 million according to a year to Boeing who flies the satellites. Iridium turned into satisfactory in that it included the whole Earth, all oceans and far off areas, with spare satellites equipped just in case. Iridium had sixty-six satellites in orbit in use at approximately 485,000 up. Very close and facilitates with records lag related to satellites that are usually a half of 2d or greater. The statistics can be transmitted at 1Mbs, that is sluggish considering the Wash Guys statistics transmission skills of 10-12.265 Mbps upload and the 1Mbs download, faster than that of the USA Department of Defense. The other problem we see with their gadget is the relay in Tempe, AZ home of Motorola, that is risky because of the most up-to-date wave of feasible terrorist devices together with the briefcase digital impulse devices which work from constructing tops and could easily break its relay station. This is why other structures, which don’t voice structures and generally net primarily based and records use satellites are an awful lot better which include the Globalstar System.

With Globalstar, that is in debt and filed financial ruin, due to a small quantity of debt to Qualcomm who’s also in trouble and Loral, it can cease to exist. Eurocom has a neat machine, that is used in the shipping enterprise and there is an exciting article in Professional Mariner this month approximately them and a few others. It is just like Inmarsat and supports PBX and PABX structures on ships. Of direction, the bent pipe approach by means of GlobalStar is really worth thinking about its forty-eight operational satellites and the 4 spares. The only actual hassle is the range of 70 tiers north to 60 levels south. And also the gaps in case you let’s assume within the center of the ocean at sea stage within the South Atlantic and or center of the Pacific. Several satellites can transmit the coded sign however not like the Iridium device the Satellites do not communicate to themselves. But all in all Global Star records transmissions are still about nine.6 KBPS and in fact barely much less than the Iridium gadget, which does not have the lapse in service.

The Iridium of the route is the Arthur C. Clark theory in exercise and is worth of note; the massive trouble proper now with information transmission is the issues with direct sight to the satellite, which we’ve got encountered. Hard for submarines, and under decks on vessels or in buildings. Good for catching awful men who have to go out in the open to use the cell phone, they do not work in caves either. Iridium like every of Microsoft software has triple redundancy and makes use of CDMA technologies to gateway the statistics from transmission point into the terrestrial device. Inmarsat Systems include the I-4 gadget, which can transmit facts at 432 MBPS turns out to be notable for such things as video conferencing. The latest satellites by using Inmarsat are said so that you can 10 times greater communications than the present day ones. Since the Inmarsat satellites are at 22, three hundred miles up 3 satellites cover the Earth with 3 lower back-ups. But recollect with that altitude there may be a time delay. You will be aware this whilst you see the video feed from the Middle East Wars on stay pronounces on TV, CNN.