Super Low Cost Internet for all 8 billion people on Earth by 2024 - Future Tech - Part 11.

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The internet has now become one of, if not, the most critical communication system in the world. But Internet service providers (ISP) have taken huge advantage of the people and companies using the system that costs next to nothing to run. Here in the UK, the average price for broadband internet is about £30 per month. I am paying £45 a month but I am on a high speed business line. America and the rest of the world is the same situation, and the ISPs are gaining up to a 10'000% profit from what it actually costs to run.

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ISPs are so money hungry that they bump up the cost of internet every year, and in some cases like virgin media, there total profits for 2015 was £13 billion and cut over 900 Jobs boosting that profit margin even more.
When you look at the ISPs as a whole, it is disgusting how much they profit and how little they give in return to it's paying customers. But we will continue to pay them as the internet is routed in our everyday social and business lives.

Fortunately, Elon Musk, the ever popular man that he is, has another brilliant idea and it is one that ISPs around the world are trying to shut down at any cost. Elon's Company Space-X, will be launching nearly 4'500 high speed internet satellites into orbit that will provide low cost, high speed internet for everyone, Space X will start to place the satellites up in 2019 and have the network fully operational by 2024.

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Space-X Launched yesterday, 10 test communication satellites into orbit to begin testing its planed ''Iridium'' service. (Read More Here).
Space-X's plans are hoping for a super low latency of 20ms compared to current land based ISPs that have a 600ms+ latency. Because of the amount of satellites in orbit, would mean we could connect to up to a thousand meaning data transfer speed would be 1GB/s upload and download speeds or even more per each individual connection.
The actual speed of each satellite, and the is 4 and a half thousand of them remember, would be 23GB/s... times that by a thousand would be 23TB/s download to the land based receivers.
(Read the Space-X technical white paper here)
(And here is the Federal Request paper here)
Not only would this be Much faster than any land based ISP, (it would take ISPs another 15-20 years to achieve that speed) but Elon has said it would be a thousand times cheaper to operate and a thousand times cheaper for its customers.

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The benefit of having such a vast network of interconnected satellites is space exploration.
With Elon Musk's plans under way to have a human colony on Mars, that same network can be used to stay in contact with the colony all day every day.. or if you are on Mars, all Sol and every Sol. (Sol being a Day on Mars)
(Read More about the Mars Mission Here)

So in a few short years I can say Fuck off to Virgin Media and say hello to High Speed satellite connection. Oh I think I just had a sex wee thinking about it.... someone pass the tissue and clean underwear.

Thanks for reading.

Stu @TechMojo