Optimera: Elon Musk’s plan to blanket the world in internet is going after half of the globe

onsdag 23 november 2016

Elon Musk’s plan to blanket the world in internet is going after half of the globe

According to recent data from the World Bank and the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, only 47% of the world's population has internet access.
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And after a big boom in the late 90s, yearly growth of internet access has largely stalled - as it stands now, we're unlikely to hit the UN's stated goal of getting 60% of the world online by 2020.