Google Satellite bandwidth details

At risk of sounding like the grammar police, damn I got annoyed reading that with all the grammatical errors!! It actually put me off and made me wonder whether the entrepreneur had made those errors or the person doing the transcript!

"In discussions we them..."
"It 123 milliseconds between...."
"It’s a constellation of satellites?" No question being asked!
"It required many satellites because that had to be inclined"

Then I gave up reading!
 
LancelotSA said:
At risk of sounding like the grammar police, damn I got annoyed reading that with all the grammatical errors!! It actually put me off and made me wonder whether the entrepreneur had made those errors or the person doing the transcript!

"In discussions we them..."
"It 123 milliseconds between...."
"It’s a constellation of satellites?" No question being asked!
"It required many satellites because that had to be inclined"

Then I gave up reading!
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I have to agree. I see a lot of errors like this as well. Perhaps this is OCR errors and not human error?

If it is human error, well, ouch! :eek:
 
OCR lol... scanning paper in this day and age? Surely it's out there on the net somewhere?
 
Q: What’s the latency going to be like on the system?

The path is five times less than for geo-satellites. It 123 milliseconds between the African port and some port in Europe connected to the global Internet. It’s comparable to fibre and in some cases will be quicker. And it’s certainly not the 600 milliseconds of geo-satellites.
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AWESOME news! My main concern with this was the high latency inherent in satellite based access. If they can keep that low, then that's fantastic.
 
$500 a meg, 400GB per month
40GB@1Mbps must then be $50
20GB@1Mbps - $25
10GB@1MBps - R150


But are these prices likely to stay?
 
What a brilliant business model and plan by Google. Irrespective of the price of bandwidth look at their potential profitability at the of this.

Currently according to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm there are roughly 1.5 Billion internet users worldwide.

We know that Google makes in excess of over $2 Billion in revenue yearly. Probably more right??..

So they financing through banks a $450 Million deal for sattelites to add another 3 Billion users to the internet. They not government. They Google and 2 Banks. So I highly doubt there is much red-tape and time wasting going on there.

Of the $450 Million %32 is Equity which is $144 Million and the rest is financed (Debt).

So technically speaking Google makes $2 Billion + with 1.5 Billion internet users approx.
And they spending $144 Million of their own money to add another 3 Billion users to the internet (technically speaking).

From a Banking perspective you could not ask for a better investment and from Google's perspective you could not ask for more traffic!! And from Africa's perspective you could not ask for more connectivity or opportunity. Hopefully the leaders will rise up to the challenge and allow the fostering of young technology Evangelist's and entrepreneurs to grow local IT and Telecom's industries and envrionment's which in-turn will create jobs and harbour education and most importantly bring people out of poverty.

But as "Danny Archer" said in "Blood Diamond" -> TIA (This Is Africa)... So Who Knows??

I guess we'll find out sooner or later...
 
moosag said:
So they financing through banks a $450 Million deal for sattelites to add another 3 Billion users to the internet. They not government. They Google and 2 Banks. So I highly doubt there is much red-tape and time wasting going on there.
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I agree that Google's plan could end up solving issues for internet access in remote areas but as far as red tape goes... no time wasting from their side perhaps but don't forget that they'll have to get licensing for the transmission to be received in a specific country which means negotiating with all the governments in Africa. Not that it will be a problem though, but it could be time consuming.
 
cables

what about all the investment in the Eassy cable? Won't this render all of that redundant?

Will we still be shafted in the last mile?

Still, the technology will win in the end because if Google want it, Google will get it. :)
 
vodacom3g said:
Maybe read up on MB vs. Mb/s.
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The article is vague by referring to 'meg'. In fact, "meg", in the computing context, is an abbreviation of Megabyte. The article meant to refer to cost per Megabit, but it's easy to see how it could be interpreted as cost per Megabyte, which is something us South Africans, quite unfortunately, have to keep top of mind - lest we go bankrupt...
 
ok so when can i get it? and telkom can go fly!
 
End-user distribution will have to be through Wi-fi or some other wireless protocol. Africa is no place for your standard run of the mill ADSL line. Not bad if they can get it of the ground literally.
 
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