14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung plans to deliver Internet to your house not by one or two satellites but via thousands of them orbiting above earth at hundreds of miles above your head.
The South Korean giant is the sort of omnipotent corporation that rivals the sort of giant companies seen in dystopian SF movies, that's able to do business in all imaginable sectors, from medical technology to tanks and artillery and automated drone guns. Investing in space technology doesn't seem the sort of thing Samsung would be too shy of.
According to a report made by the company's R&D department, the only way to satisfy the need of Internet in a future world when humankind would eat about one zettabyte of data per month. To satisfy such crazy needs of future Internet users, 4,600 of small satellites would be needed to orbit our blue pebble in order to give us this amount of data.
Elon Musk and OneWeb aren't new in this endeavor
This is not a first attempt by large companies to bring a worldwide internet service. Before the initiatives started by thinkers like Elon Musk's Space X and Richard Branson's OneWeb, Bill Gates and GlobalStar attempted to bring universal Internet access via satellites as well. It all faltered to pieces when the actual costs of ferrying technology regularly in space showed their ugly face.
There are many issues that could be posed by such rapid and en mass advancement. First, the fuel costs should drop by at least half the price it costs today, secondly the satellites should be easily disposable from the orbit without turning into a damaging wreck for the rest of the network. Keeping in mind how dangerous the blanket of junk and disabled satellites that surrounds our Earth is, the one thing we need now is another couple of thousands satellites just to provide Internet in the steppes of Asia.
This is not an easy task to complete, however, since such endeavors may cost too much even for tech giants like Samsung or Microsoft.