Group Plans To Offer Free Wi-Fi To Planet

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A new organization wants you to be able to check your e-mail in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest or the deserts of Africa.

A group calling themselves the Media Development Investment Fund is creating something called Outernet, which involves hundreds of mini-satellites that would orbit earth and provide Wi-Fi to the entire planet.

The MDIF says that the new technology would allow free press and information to flow into countries that block internet access to citizens like China and North Korea.  Currently about 60% of the planet has access to the internet mostly because poor areas of the world lack the infrastructure necessary to sustain signal.

The company plans to ask NASA to run tests of their service from the International Space Station in September 2014.  If the tests from the ISS are successful, the company believes they can begin Outernet by June 2015.

The service will not be like traditional internet service in that the user can go to any website but the service will be much like satellite TV in that it will provide a menu of websites for users visit.

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