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Internet Access in Developing World With Drones

posted by n1 on Friday March 28 2014, @10:32PM   
from the parallel-world-where-drones-are-constructive dept.

n1 writes:

Mark Zuckerberg took to his blog yesterday to announce the next phase of his Internet.org initiative, to deliver Internet to the majority of the world which currently has no connectivity.

Today, we're sharing some details of the work Facebook's Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone.

We've made good progress so far. Over the past year, our work in the Philippines and Paraguay alone has doubled the number of people using mobile data with the operators we've partnered with, helping 3 million new people access the Internet.

He goes on to describe the team working on this project, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and the UK aerospace company Ascenta. Which casts doubt over previous speculation that Facebook is planning to acquire Titan Aerospace.

• Re:Water and sanitationRe:Water and sanitation (Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Friday March 28 2014, @11:36PM

  by marcello_dl (2685) on Friday March 28 2014, @11:36PM (#22749)

  Yes, but they also need to be spied upon, and their ideas disguised as the ridiculous "public opinion" concept, need be affected by the new media propaganda, therefore: internet.

  I hope that the project succeeds for visible light spectrum transceivers so hobbyists can start building their own mesh network with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget about the mesh and the blackjack.

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• Re:Water and sanitation(Score: 2) by davester666 on Saturday March 29 2014, @03:23AM

  by davester666 (155) on Saturday March 29 2014, @03:23AM (#22807)

  This part of the project is called "an alternative revenue stream".

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