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<div><b>From:</b> "Rahr, Matt - (rahr)" <<a href="mailto:rahr@ag.arizona.edu">rahr@ag.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> February 24, 2018 at 11:46:23 CST<br>
<b>To:</b> "Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran)" <<a href="mailto:mcclaran@email.arizona.edu">mcclaran@email.arizona.edu</a>>, "Husman, Stephen H - (husmans)" <<a href="mailto:Husman@ag.arizona.edu">Husman@ag.arizona.edu</a>>, "Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto)"
<<a href="mailto:Silver@ag.arizona.edu">Silver@ag.arizona.edu</a>>, "Burgess, Shane C - (shaneburgess)" <<a href="mailto:sburgess@cals.arizona.edu">sburgess@cals.arizona.edu</a>>, "Ratje, Jeffrey M - (jmratje)" <<a href="mailto:jmratje@email.arizona.edu">jmratje@email.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Summary of two technologies that could deliver internet to rural AZ</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hey Mitch and others,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here is a nice breakdown of the two technologies that I researched for internet at DK (and elsewhere rural).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <a href="https://www.yaabot.com/29834/battling-it-out-for-internet-access-from-the-skies-googles-project-loon-versus-facebooks-aquila/">https://www.yaabot.com/29834/battling-it-out-for-internet-access-from-the-skies-googles-project-loon-versus-facebooks-aquila/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Facebookâs Anguila drone was performing tests in Yuma, but no updates since summer of last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://code.facebook.com/posts/993520160679028/building-communications-networks-in-the-stratosphere/">https://code.facebook.com/posts/993520160679028/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://code.facebook.com/posts/268598690180189">https://code.facebook.com/posts/268598690180189</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(short videos in each post)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Both of these technologies appear years away, so our best bet is on Verizon moving forward with a cellular tower in Cornville, AZ.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matt Rahr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Director, CALS Communications and Cyber Technologies (CCT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Director, Cyber Experiment Station<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://cct.cals.arizona.edu/"><span style="color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">http://cct.cals.arizona.edu</span></a> - 520-626-0329</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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