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  • Help Buy a Satellite from a Bankrupt Telecom to Beam Free Web to the Developing World

    12/05/2010 4:16:35 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 32 replies
    Popular Science ^ | Thursday, December 2, 2010 | Clay Dillow
    Increasing web connectivity in the developing world has been a focus of philanthropists, international bodies like the U.N., and individual states alike. But, like most grand visions, wiring entire countries for the Web is expensive. So how does a philanthropist sidestep the massive expense of building and launching a satellite that can beam Internet to remote regions of the world? You wait for a company to go bankrupt, then you buy their brand new communications satellite already in orbit on the cheap. ...A philanthropic group called Ahumanright.org (universal Internet is that human right) has launched a site called "Buy This...