O3b Launches Four More Satellites To Bring Internet To 'Other 3 Billion' 80
An anonymous reader writes "O3b Networks is aiming to provide internet access through satellite, to the "other three billion" people in under-served equatorial regions (Africa, the Pacific, South America). O3b launched four more satellites [Thursday], to add to the four they already have in orbit. This is a very international effort; a Russian Soyuz rocket went up from South America, carrying satellites built in France. There's a video of the rocket and payloads coming together and a video of the rocket launch. There's also an academic paper describing using the O3b system from the Cook Islands in the Pacific, giving an idea of what it does and those all-important ping times."
This is the first time I've ever seen my homeland (Score:4, Interesting)
Yep, I was born and raised in the Cook Islands. How many other Cook islanders are reading Slashdot?