| Patrice Riemens on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:44:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> Chris Wilson on Google Broadband for Africa |
Spotted by our Google World Domination Project Observatory ;-) bwo wsfii discussion list ----- Forwarded message from Chris Wilson <[email protected]> ----- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:49:54 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> To: World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure <[email protected]> Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Google Broadband List-Archive: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/wsfii-discuss> Hi all, According to FT and other sources, Google has announced their support for a new initiative called O3B to "bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected" in 2010. "They will... order 16 low-earth orbit satellites... as the first stage in a $750m project to connect mobile masts in a swath of countries within 45 degrees of the equator to fast broadband networks... the project could bring the cost of bandwidth in such markets down by 95 per cent." I've written a critical review on on our new (personal) blog at: http://tinderblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/google-broadband/ Please feel free to read more and comment there. Ermanno Pietrosemoli commented: "I am very much excited about the possibility of using this transport technology in combination with community wireless access (WiFi extensions or even proprietary techniques) to provide a complete communication solution for developing countries at affordable cost, bypassing traditional carriers, provided that the frequency availability issue can be solved." Thanks, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ wsfii-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]