A new organization has an audacious goal: buying and reconfiguring a communications satellite to bring free, low-speed Internet to the global south.
A new Ngo is attempting to bring affordable Internet to the developing world by buying its own satellite. Ahumanright.org, a Berlin-based non-profit, is bidding for a commercial satellite it can repurpose and use to beam bandwidth. To help make that happen they've recruited the founder of Xm Radio, and partnered Deutsche Telekom and the Nasa Ames Research Center.
The satellite in question is TerreStar-1, a communications satellite currently operated by the TerreStar Corporation. TerreStar filed for Chapter 11 in October 2010 and is currently embroiled in a complex legal struggle with Sprint Nextel. Ahumanright will solicit $150,000 from online donations, develop a business plan, and purchase TerreStar-1 in cooperation with the government of Papua New Guinea.
A satellite parked in geosynchronous orbit over Papua New Guinea would offer access to portions of South Asia,...
A new Ngo is attempting to bring affordable Internet to the developing world by buying its own satellite. Ahumanright.org, a Berlin-based non-profit, is bidding for a commercial satellite it can repurpose and use to beam bandwidth. To help make that happen they've recruited the founder of Xm Radio, and partnered Deutsche Telekom and the Nasa Ames Research Center.
The satellite in question is TerreStar-1, a communications satellite currently operated by the TerreStar Corporation. TerreStar filed for Chapter 11 in October 2010 and is currently embroiled in a complex legal struggle with Sprint Nextel. Ahumanright will solicit $150,000 from online donations, develop a business plan, and purchase TerreStar-1 in cooperation with the government of Papua New Guinea.
A satellite parked in geosynchronous orbit over Papua New Guinea would offer access to portions of South Asia,...
- 12/28/2010
- by Neal Ungerleider
- Fast Company
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