Will Solar-Powered UAVs be Cost-Effective to Bring the Internet to Unserved Areas?

Facebook’s launch of its Connectivity Lab and hiring of the team that formed UK-based UAV maker Ascenta and Google’s acquisition of Titan Aerospace are aimed at putting long-life UAVs into the air that can transmit and receive Internet signals to locales currently lacking Internet service. While bringing the benefits of the Internet to developing regions is an admirable activity, we wonder if those regions offer attractively high purchasing power that would justify the advertising that will be beamed to them.

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