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An ambitious project known as Outernet is aiming to launch hundreds of miniature satellites into low Earth orbit by June 2015

Each satellite will broadcast the Internet to phones and computers giving billions of people across the globe free online access
Citizens of countries like China and North Korea that have censored online activity could be given free and unrestricted cyberspace
'There's really nothing that is technically impossible to this'

You might think you have to pay through the nose at the moment to access the Internet. But one ambitious organisation called the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is planning to turn the age of online computing on its head by giving free web access to every person on Earth.

Known as Outernet, MDIF plans to launch hundreds of satellites into orbit by 2015.

And they say the project could provide unrestricted Internet access to countries where their web access is censored, including China and North Korea.

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_Dutchy_ wrote:Nobody considered the fact that country's like north koreea and china will simply blast these things out of the sky

Isis wrote:If this is true, when things are normally free, they make money through people advertising. You'll probably get a lot of pop up adds or something.

.curve wrote:Wasn't there a fear of running out of global bandwidth or something not long ago?

Ganja wrote:What about the hackers?

Sanktum wrote:But before that happens, someone would need to hand out free PCs too.

Sanktum wrote:North Koreans would repopulate KSRO. But before that happens, someone would need to hand out free PCs too.