Ali, This is an interesting in-depth article - but it's almost 2 years old! Just this week, however, Softbank (the Japanese company who just bought UK's ARM for 32 billion USD (the designers of most of the CPU chips in phones and embedded devices)) announced an investment of over 1 billion USD in Wyler's company: http://spacenews.com/oneweb-gets-1-2-billion-in-softbank-led-investment/ Things are on track. Can't wait :) Cheers, Tony On 22/12/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote:
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Super interesting story about how one man is probably close to succeeding in building a Global Internet Service Provider. Interestingly enough he comes from the premise that Connectivity is a Human Right and is largely responsible for helping Rwanda connect most of the country via Fibre.
In tech-conference speak, what Wyler’s been doing for the past dozen years is connecting “the other 3 billion.” This is the half of the world’s population that for various reasons is not online. Companies such as Google and Facebook have received a lot of attention for their philanthropic plans to bring the Internet to the developing world. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, invited Time to follow him around rural India for a story about his evolution as a philanthropist and business leader, though he provided few specifics on what Facebook intends to do for India’s poor. And Elon Musk—he of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and the Hyperloop—has received a wave of press, and $1 billion in capital from Google and Fidelity—after unveiling his own space Internet plan.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-new-space-race-one-ma...
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