Never short on big ideas, Google is reportedly ready to spend $1 billion on satellites that will bring Web access to the remotest regions of the world. “The project will start with 180 small,
high-capacity satellites orbiting the earth at lower altitudes than traditional satellites,” The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. “Google's project is the latest effort by a
Silicon Valley company to extend Internet coverage from the sky to help its business on the ground.”
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