The OuterNet

November 2024 Forums General discussion The OuterNet

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    alanjjohnstone
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    Another example of technology being held back by capitalism.

    http://rt.com/usa/outernet-cubesat-free-internet-153/

    Developers say they are less than a year away from deploying prototype satellites that could someday soon broadcast free and universal internet all over the globe from high in orbit…it would take only three years and $12 billion to get the project up and running…allows citizens to reduce their reliance on costly internet data plans in places where monthly fees are too expensive for average citizens. And offering continuously updated web content from space bypasses censorship … There's really nothing that is technically impossible to this,” he added. “But at the prospect of telecoms operators trying to shut the project down before it gets off the ground,”

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