[kictanet] Global Internet: Greg Wyler May Beat Elon Musk, Google, Facebook - Bloomberg

[Tony White]

Ali,

This is an interesting in-depth article - but it's almost 2 years old!

Just this week, however, Softbank (the Japanese company who just
bought UK's ARM for 32 billion USD (the designers of most of the CPU
chips in phones and embedded devices)) announced an investment of over
1 billion USD in Wyler's company:

http://spacenews.com/oneweb-gets-1-2-billion-in-softbank-led-investment/

Things are on track.  Can't wait :)

Cheers,
Tony


On 22/12/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Listers
>
> Super interesting story about how one man is probably close to succeeding in
> building a Global Internet Service Provider. Interestingly enough he comes
> from the premise that Connectivity is a Human Right and is largely
> responsible for helping Rwanda connect most of the country via Fibre.
>
> In tech-conference speak, what Wyler’s been doing for the past dozen years
> is connecting “the other 3 billion.” This is the half of the world’s
> population that for various reasons is not online. Companies such as Google
> and Facebook have received a lot of attention for their philanthropic plans
> to bring the Internet to the developing world. Mark Zuckerberg, for example,
> invited Time to follow him around rural India for a story about his
> evolution as a philanthropist and business leader, though he provided few
> specifics on what Facebook intends to do for India’s poor. And Elon Musk—he
> of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and the Hyperloop—has received a wave of press, and
> $1 billion in capital from Google and Fidelity—after unveiling his own space
> Internet plan.
>
> Read on:-
>
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-new-space-race-one-man-s-mission-to-build-a-galactic-internet-i58i2dp6
>
>
> Ali Hussein
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>
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>
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> no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
>
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Tony White