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Re:Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1B in Satellite Startup OneWeb by syedkarim on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:57AM (#13218023)
The entire world (even the most remote places) already has internet access (VSAT, BGAN, etc). OneWeb is just supposed to make rural satellite internet faster and cheaper.
Re:Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1B in Satellite Startup OneWeb by dx034 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:46AM (#13221466)
Current internet via satellite is barely usable due to the extremely high latency. It's better than nothing but many services are de facto not usable. I've just been to Scotland and many places there have to rely on satellite internet, I'm sure the vast majority of them would be happy to switch to lower latency connections (and could pay well for it).