Google backs $750m African internet project

The project, named O3b Networks, is targeting those people for whom broadband internet access is not commercially viable. The consortium will today announce a deal to buy 16 low-earth orbit satellites from France's Thales Alenia Space as it kicks off the $750 million project to link mobile phone masts to broadband networks in a series of countries close to the equator, the Financial Times reported.

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