Negroponte Wants to Connect the Last Billion | Re/code

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"Negroponte said he estimated the cost of bringing Internet access to 100 million people is $2 billion.
That would apparently cover a terabit satellite with one million ground stations, 10 years of operation, and 10 million tablets, according to Negroponte’s slides, though he didn’t go into the details.
“Two billion [dollars] is what we were spending in Afghanistan every week, so surely if we can connect Africa and the last billion people for numbers like that, we should be doing it,” Negroponte said."

Negroponte Wants to Connect the Last Billion | Re/code