SWANsat Telecommunications – Shareware Telecomms (2/4)

Super-Wide Area Network Satellite (SWANsat) is a Satellite_constellation of at least 3 Geosynchronous_orbiting high powered satellites. It is planned to launch around 2011. Effectively, it will be a global Internet Service Provider. An increase in potential worldwide wireless broadband internet capacity of around 600 million connections per satellite, using just a handheld mobile device to connect to the system. Corporate Capability: Those involved in the SWANsat project include the inventors, builders and owners of GPS and Iridium; a retired Chief of Staff, four-star Army General; a former CEO of Western Digital; satellite architects involved in the Teledesic project as well as Sandia Laboratories. Shareware Telecommunications Model: SWANsat has published an economic model that could provide developing country residents access to the SWANsat Satellite service for as little as per month. It is hailed as an effective way to bridge the Global_digital_divide. Specifically, the Shareware model states that after meeting a modest business model target of full paying subscribers in richer countries, it will start to offer the SWANsat service to underserved and unserved countries. One additional full paying subscriber will release 40 shareware accounts & possibly handsets. For example, 10 million full subscriptions will release 400 million shareware accounts.