Reply #54: Thanks for the info. I donated $100. [View All]

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Some people seem to be missing the point.

This isn't intended to be a "western" high speed service. It isn't going to compete with Time warner or AT&T. When you take the aggregate bandwidth of the bird and divide it by millions of users it will be SUB DIALUP.

Nobody is going to use this to watch funny cats of youtube, or stream netflix movies. It is more about providing free access to vital information in portions of the globe where currently there is no access.

In essence if you have access to any internet service (even dialup) this isn't for YOU. It is for people who have nothing, and likely won't have anything for decades due to high cost of wiring up rural portions of third world countries.