Zuckerberg says Facebook will deliver ‘internet from space’ to Africa

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says the social-media firm’s internet.org initiative will begin delivering broadband services to rural communities in Africa via a satellite that will launch next year.

Together with satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, Facebook has reserved the entire broadband capacity of Spacecom’s AMOS-6, which will be launched into a geostationary orbit in 2016.[1]

[1] By Adam Oxford for African Enterprise

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