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...only the start of Boroffice's ambitious plans. A communications satellite designed to give even remote villagers access to the Internet is scheduled to be launched next year, and a second observation satellite is planned for 2009. To make the space program self-sustaining, Nigeria wants to sell excess bandwidth to other nations; a United Arab Emirates?based company reportedly has already signed a $250 million deal. "I'm very passionate about space technology, says Boroffice, 57, a former biology professor. "I see what it has done in India, and I want to do the same in Nigeria...
...service is intermittent. Some residents are seeing great service, others not so much,” she said. Nettifee added that students should expect to see improvements beginning in early October, as the necessary bandwidth additions are made to the network...
...Moveon.org, along with Yahoo, Google and all the bloggers, are worried that telephone and cable companies, who built and own much of the infrastructure of networks that provide high-speed Internet access, will put them at a competitive disadvantage by changing the way they charge companies for using bandwidth. Google has complained, for example, that a cable company could charge it much higher fees if it wants to run as fast as other competing sites. Bloggers warn that a broadband company could even restrict or slow down access to sites that express political viewpoints they disagree with. Cable and phone...
Still in its formative stages, the video-heavy Inmanstories.com points to what a real estate search will look like when broadband reigns. Watch video tours of homes for sale and the towns they're in and see interviews with brokers to get a high-bandwidth picture of the place you're thinking of moving...
...laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...