Google Invests In The Other 3 Billion

Today the company announced its investment in
From the we saw it coming.

All of that connectivity is part of Google’s long-term strategy and answer to critics who say Google has gotten too far a field of its core search competency. As one executive recently stated, more Internet for everyone is an important part of the company mission to boost advertising revenue, which supports their other mission, which is to index the world’s information and make it freely available.

 O3b plans to have their satellite-based Internet services up and running in 2010, and expects bandwidth to be cheaper, faster, and easier for much of the world. The company claims the network will offer low-latency links from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps for core trunking, instant fiber-path restoration and 3G cellular backhaul.

Wanna take bets the Internet noobs out in there in the boonies get faster Internet than in the States?