Is it possible?

Question

To give free world wide web to entire world via a few satellites?

What if the government did this, and distributed a lot of rugged little computers that can be used even by illiterates (there are such things) for anyone who wanted to tell us where Osama is and stuff like that?

Answer 1

yes man,now a days nothing is impossible,few days ago i read in news that the broadband may turn free.Broadband may turn free for all in two years
Govt Plans To Offer Internet Connectivity At A Speed Of 2MB Per Second For Free Across The Country By 2009

Jyoti Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI

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HE Government proposes to offer free, high-speed broadband connectivity to all Indian residents by 2009, through state owned telephone service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers will cheer the move, it holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it.
You have heard of free municipal broadband –many cities in the US have drenched themselves with wireless broadband connectivity, freely accessible by the residents. The idea is to boost economic activity in general. The government of India plans to achieve free broadband activity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal.
Senior government officials expect to be able to achieve this goal spending only a portion of burgeoning corpus of the Universal Service Obligation Fund, to which all telecom operators contribute 5% of their revenues every year.
The current technological trend is for voice calls also to shift to the internet, using voice over internet protocol (VoIP).
The quality of VoIP calls, patchy to start off with, has been improving steadily over the years, and by 2009, it is likely to be as good as current analogue calls that establish a circuit between the calling and called parties. When that happens, revenue streams from calls would dry up and telecom companies would need to develop value added applications to make money from the connectivity they provide for free or virtually free.
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has outlined a series of steps to make this plan a reality. First, it plans to enhance the optic cable network across the country and also lay new optic cables to all un connected areas with support from USOF. (DoT has already initiated work to extend the scope of the funds towards rural broadband rollout).
Simultaneously, DoT will also go all out to break the monopoly of existing national and international distance players ,in a bid to induce cut-throat competition in this sector to lower bandwidth prices. “India has only a handful of NLD/ILD operators while small countries such as Singapore and Taiwan have over 30 and 60 long-distance operators, respectively. With limited players, they control the bandwidth gateway and form a cartel and this ensures that tariff remain high. The entry of new players such as AT&T, British Telecom amongst other has started creating an impact,” the government source added
In the related move. DoT will also issue normsthat mandate Indian companies. Including BSNL and MTNL, to begin large-scale web- hosting services.
“This is because, the most of the internet traffic generated in India is currently routed out of the country and is re-routed back, resulting in the increased use of international; bandwidth,” the government sources said. Additionally, the plan includes asking all internet service providers to connect their networks to the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). This will also ensure that internet traffic originating and destined for India is routed within the country, resulting in optimum domestic bandwidth utilization. Currently, the purpose of establishment of NIXI has not been served as only 27 ISPs have joined it, the sources explained.

Answer 2

Yes....if the governments of the world got together and agreed to pay for the development, launching and maintenance costs. But, as in all business deals, where is the profit and what are the spinoff advantages? I would vote for it.

Answer 3

Probably a matter of a fair few decades till the whole world will be a massive wifi hotspot. Well, I hope so...

Answer 4

Sure. But --you-- have to foot the cost of building the satellites, lofting them into orbit, and keeping them maintained (or replaced).

If --you-- want to spring for that, I'm sure that the rest of us would just love to have free, high-speed WWW service ☺

Doug

Answer 5

It depends on what the trust was broken over, most times no. Lisa Michelle x x lol x x

Answer 6

why - you got tv and its world wide - and you can advertise - the bounty for info on him is already $50 million us and the brains of americia cant find him ? why ? that is the question - unless you just listen to americian TV only - Pleassssssssssssse

Answer 7

Cell phones could be done that way also.....