British satellite constellation firm OneWeb Ltd. completed a successful launch today, sending 36 satellites into orbit that it said will pave the way for it to ...

BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

It has been nearly one year since Facebook first unveiled Aquila, a long duration, solar-powered drone that is capable of beaming down internet access to hard to ...

BY ERIC DAVID - 9 YEARS AGO

Today, a consortium of six companies, including Google, is set to activate FASTER, an enormous undersea fiber optic cable that stretches thousands of miles across the ...

BY ERIC DAVID - 9 YEARS AGO

Facebook may be hard at work creating the future of internet connectivity with its high-altitude drones and lasers, but sometimes nothing beats laying a gigantic cable ...

BY ERIC DAVID - 9 YEARS AGO

Social media giant Facebook, Inc. announced Monday that it would be partnering with French satellite company Eutelsat Communications SA to bring free basic internet access to ...

BY ERIC DAVID - 10 YEARS AGO

Facebook has announced the official launch of its Internet.org app platform, which it is now calling “Free Basics by Facebook.” “Over the past few months, ...

BY ERIC DAVID - 10 YEARS AGO

Facebook’s Connectivity Lab has been hard at work developing ambitious solutions to the challenge of providing internet connectivity to the roughly two-thirds of the world living ...

BY ERIC DAVID - 10 YEARS AGO

Sudan was abruptly cut off from the internet on Wednesday afternoon following riots that erupted in the capital Khartoum over the government’s decision to end ...

BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 12 YEARS AGO

There’s no way anyone can tell what will happen in the future. However, it’s not impossible to throw educated guesses based on facts using various ...

BY KRISTINA FARRAH - 13 YEARS AGO