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The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans

posted by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the wait-until-they-find-out-some-search-results-are-advertisements dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A satellite broadcasting company called Outernet wants to bring all this content many of us take for granted to the estimated 3 billion people without internet access. That catch is that, in order to get content to as many people as possible efficiently and cheaply, Outernet's connection goes only one way.

"We want to solve the information access problem as quickly as possible," Outernet co-founder and CEO Syed Karim says.

Outernet sells a simple gadget called the Lighthouse that can connect to a satellite dish and download—but not upload—information such as Wikipedia entries, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, news, crop prices and more. The device doubles as a Wi-Fi hub, so that users can connect to it and download or browse text on their own devices. You can also build a Lighthouse-style receiver yourself, using the company's open source software and instructions. The service is free, and anyone with the proper equipment can pick up Outernet's broadcasts.

Yay, a new device to capture the spending power of the 3 billion humans who live on less than $2 per day.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by AnonTechie on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:58AM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:58AM (#214800) Journal

    I have submitted this story twice before. I do hope that this company finally does something other than Press Releases.

    Outernet - Information from Outer Space
    https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/25/173217 [soylentnews.org]

    Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free
    https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/05/16/2137238 [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @01:22PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 28 2015, @01:22PM (#214826) Journal

    I will ask the Editor to write out 100 times ' I must check for dupes' - but, to be honest, the automatic checker is not up to much at the moment and with over 7000 stories published so far the task is not an easy one.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:10PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:10PM (#214917) Journal

      I don't consider it a dupe... maybe a non-update update.

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    • (Score: 2) by penguinoid on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:00PM

      by penguinoid (5331) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:00PM (#215053)

      I will ask the Editor to write out 100 times ' I must check for dupes'

      Only reason you didn't see it is because of the error

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      Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.

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