How to communicate when cell towers are down?

We are capable of delivery Sonnet at $89 per pair because:
1. We are experienced in mass manufacturing as this is not our first time to do a hardware product;
2. We have long-term relationship with reputable manufacturing partners in China. By reputable I mean tested by their NA and European clients.
3. We have the capability to do a process re-engineering which cut down the cost dramatically;
4. We obviously don't know about Beartooth's profit margin, but it is possible that we are taking a much lower margin.

 

I promise complete honesty here. If your use case isn't a good fit, then I will just tell you Sonnet is useless for you.

 

Yep, your understanding is correct. We operate in license-free frequencies and it is totally legal to operate on them. We checked with lawyers, of course.

 

Yes, I m in Shenzhen right now.
Well the manufacturing scene here nowadays is that most sophisticated manufacturers go up north to Shenzhen, or even further north to a place called Dongguan, as the properties and wages are quite expensive in Hongkong.
Honestly as a startup, we simply cannot afford living in HongKong for months.

 

Beartooth's site does say shipping in August, they should up-date if that is false. Beartooth products are quite expensive. No sense in wasting money on a brand name if someone makes an equal, I am interested.

 

For the badnwidth we are look at 5k/s. I just asked my partner to reply to the technical part.

 

Thank you for the technological interpretation! You are right, the modulation method we currently use is CSS, however the chipset we use also supports FSK modulation, and we will be implementing that as well for higher bandwidth, shorter range communication. The direct link bandwidth is currently around 30kbps (CSS), which is around half of dialup Internet. The bandwidth on average is halved through each mesh relay node. With FSK we are seeing upwards of 300kbps bandwidth, but we still haven't gotten mesh to work with FSK. Hope this answers your question.

 

Sonnet is indeed more affordable than Beartooth. But at the same time, given what they say about their specs and features, I m confident to say we have accomplished more and will deliver more to our backers/customers.

 

Hi Brokor,
Thank you so much! Yes we are certainly interested, and if it happens it would be of enormous help for us. But not sure if he would be interested though, as in my knowledge the cellular coverage is very good even in rural China.

 

You are right, not good enough for video facetime. Our next product, if we ever have the chance to actually do it, will have real-time voice talking capability.

 

Don't claim to be a comm tech anymore, still in single side band mode, but it at least looks to me that RandolpfG has at least a few things going for him at this point. He is enthused about his product and trying his best to get it together and make it work and is trying to develop a product and not hawk someone else product. Sort of appears that he is trying to use the Apple model of developing a product and having it made off shore. That seems to have worked well for both Apple and their customers, jury is still out on effect on the benefits to the USA. He is also trying to answer questions and communicate with us, not either asking us to trust him, nor flying into a rage because we dare question him. His product is not my brand of tea as I am more of a lone wolf as far as comms go. I don't feel frightened nor offended by his pitch and if in the end turns out to be spam, he is at least presenting an interesting looking dish of it and with BTPosts observations and comments on the processes used in his system, I am learning a lot about modern comm possibilities.

 

Well, I am certainly interested, very interested, and will be following it as it could be very useful here as we do not have the best cell coverage in Northern Idaho even though Verizon markets it as such...

 

Thanks for the good words, while I don't think I should take all the credit. It is the culture we decided to create across our entire team.

Hi Bandit99,
Thank you for your interest! Just like what I said, let me know whatever questions/concerns/use cases you have so I can give you more info for you to decide if Sonnet would be good fit for your needs. You can either leave your comments here or message us on kickstarter.

 

Then thank you for your support in advance! Mind me askin if you are from Alaska? We got a few orders from Alaska which is a lot given its small pop percentage. Wondering if Alaska's signal coverage, I mean in the inhabited areas, is that bad.