Today Google , along with HSBC and a few other investors , helped place an order for 16 low - orbit Thales Alenia satellite to begin the push for a massive broadband deployment in Africa and beyond that it hopes will help link the 3 billion mass in the world who are presently webless . It ’s a stately plan , with quite a long manner to go . Google and their partners threw in $ 60 million out of the take $ 150-$180 m into the kitten of O3b Networks ( the other 3 billion , get it ? ) , the house established to launch the satellites and grapple the initiative . A artificial satellite downlink is of course only the first step in set up a sweet broadband connection , but the fellowship also has architectural plan to convert peregrine phone towers into multipurpose high-pitched - speed connection knob , which when accomplished is estimated to cost $ 750 m all told . Google says it will help overleap the cost of broadband by up to 95 % in some places where it ’s a rare good . When the satellites are launched in 2010 , that ’s one footmark nearer to 3 billion more new Googlers , looking at AdSense advertising all the way , of course of study . [ Financial Timesvia/. ]
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