Topic: Facebook Wants to Bring Drones and Lasers To Deliver the Internet (Read 683 times)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIMuvumYrg

What happened to the outernet project? Dropped?

Unfiltered news from people everywhere?

Let's remember that web access also means telephone access..And this might be more of what's at the stake here. In this context  the” combination of drones ,satellites and lasers” make sense -as perhaps the high price Facebook paid  for WhatsApp.
For sure,Facebook and Google efforts towards universal web access are fantastic  news for people everywhere.....

I really like that picture indeed. Who knows? Maybe he is using M-Pesa already...

I'm not surprised that Facebook is working with Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and others

This picture is really handsome. Are you an old Indian, cool.

Indeed this is terrible, be hardly worthy of belief.

So those people without safe drinking water, stable food supply or basic sanitation will now have internet access. And the new slogan of this social neworking site will be Anytime Anywhere Facebook!

Even worse than food and water!




Billions of new FB users will realize how terrible their FB pages look like, taking selfies in front of their dirt made hut using their 0.5MP camera phones....

Even to forgive others, but also have their own ideas, assertive is a good thing.

I said is just your wishful thinking, to be tolerant of others to understand others.

 

I said is just your wishful thinking, to be tolerant of others to understand others.

Will you be able to connect without being on facebook?

If it's just a plan to get more customers, it isn't nice. It's also a bit of a gimmick when you think that more than one billion people don't have running water in their home. Millions don't even have a home.

Google wanted balloons with mesh routers with radios, but this is worse from a technical viewpoint.

FB needs new management. FB is totally untrustworthy.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Facebook (FB_) has grand and ambitious plans to connect everyone on Earth to the Internet, with its Internet.org initiative. Today, it announced the next steps behind this initiative.

In a post to his Facebook page, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Connectivity Lab, the team getting this plan up and running, and how it's going to do so. "Our goal with Internet.org is to make affordable access to basic internet services available to every person in the world," Zuckerberg said on the Facebook post. "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."

Zuckerberg noted that the plan has shown an early return on investment, helping get 3 million new people connected to the Internet in the Philippines and Paraguay alone.

At the time of the Internet.org announcement, Zuckerberg noted that though smartphones are likely to get cheaper in the coming years, it is still a difficult task to get people connected to the Internet in third-world countries, because the cost of data is so high. "Even though projections show most people will get smartphones in the next decade, most people still won't have data access because the cost of data remains much more expensive than the price of a smartphone," Zuckerberg wrote in the initial blog post, announcing Internet.org in Aug. 2013.

Facebook is working with Nokia (NOK_), Qualcomm (QCOM_), Samsung, Ericsson (ERIC_), MediaTek and Opera on the initiative.

"Our team has many of the world's leading experts in aerospace and communications technology, including from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Ames Research Center," Zuckerberg went on to say in the post. "Today we are also bringing on key members of the team from Ascenta, a small UK-based company whose founders created early versions of Zephyr, which became the world's longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft. They will join our team working on connectivity aircraft."

Facebook is rumored to have been in talks with drone maker Titan Aerospace for $60 million to help with the plan.