Facebook has announced that it ’s team up up with French - ground artificial satellite provider Eutelsat Communications to transmit barren internet to 14 nation in Sub - Saharan Africa .
Thedealwill see the companies use “ the entire broadband payload on the future AMOS-6 [ geostationary]satellite ” along with gateway and terminals on the ground , ply in high spirits gain spot shaft of light of information that will cover large parts of West , East and Southern Africa . Planned to start supply connectivity in the second one-half of 2016 , the satellite should bring home the bacon people live in more outback , low- to intermediate - denseness universe area with the internet that they ’re keen to receive . The planet is to be lofted into the sky by SpaceX ’s Falcon 9 rocket . It ’s not , of course , Facebook’sonly planned form of legal action for render net to distant areas — but it might be the first to take off .
[ Eutelsat CommunicationsviaEngadget ]
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