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Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos... by nsx147 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:02PM (#20121032)
It would be great if Amazon Prime included internet access. One time fee for the dish, works with all their in-home stuff.

Didn't FB try do this and scrapped the project?

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Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos... by notyourwork on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:33PM (#20121172)
As I recall Facebook tried to commandeer the “internet” for Indian citizens by provided a subset of the real internet.
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Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos... by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:08PM (#20121318)
So... Was the subset just all of Facebook and nothing else?
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Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos... by nyolfen on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:23PM (#20121385)
a few dozen websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org#Available_website...
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Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos... by captn3m0 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:14PM (#20121096)
That was balloons
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Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos... by jcims on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:33PM (#20121171)
Google was (ba)loons, FB was solar powered high altitude drones.
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