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Facebook, Google Battle To Bring Internet To Remote Locations

Posted by samzenpus on from the spreading-the-net dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Facebook and Google only make money from people when they can access the Internet, so it stands to reason that they're working to make sure everyone has access. While Google's Project Loon seeks to use balloon-borne equipment, Mark Zuckerberg envisions a system of drones and laser beams."

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  1. Don't compare money with substance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Zuckerberg is just a reasonably bright person with a shitload of cash, he's not some kind of networking prodigy.

    I think it's kind of insulting to the big community of actual engineers at Google to compare all of their efforts against some hunch thought that Mark Zuckerberg had.