{"id":11031,"date":"2014-06-05T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11031"},"modified":"2014-06-05T07:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:48:41","slug":"spreading-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/spreading-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/060514_1145_SpreadingBr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The biggest tech companies are working to spread internet access across the world. Leo Mirani took a look at their approaches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is planning to use satellites, balloons, and drones to provide internet access to low income communities.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook also dished out $20 million for experts in solar-powered drones that can be used to spread internet.<\/li>\n<li>A more modest idea is to utilized unused parts of the electromagnetic spectrum reserved for television. These unused parts are the space in between television channels \u2013 white space.<\/li>\n<li>In tests run by Microsoft in Kenya, the company was able to provide internet access for $5 per month \u2013 cheaper than the plans offered by mobile providers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the various approaches <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/215669\/forget-drones-microsofts-plan-to-bring-the-internet-to-the-world-is-all-about-tv\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/215669\/forget-drones-microsofts-plan-to-bring-the-internet-to-the-world-is-all-about-tv\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest tech companies are working to spread internet access across the world. Leo Mirani took a look at their approaches: Google is planning to use satellites, balloons, and drones to provide internet access to low income communities. Facebook also dished out $20 million for experts in solar-powered drones that can be used to spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/060514_1145_SpreadingBr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}