Germany is a leading industrial nation that still has many areas that desperately lag behind on the telecoms front. And that applies to both landlines and Internet Access though Broadband Speed rankings constantly fluctuates germany ranks in the mid thirtys compared to other countries. And while other countries pick up the pace germany is struggling to keep up. My one solution be an extraterrestrial one providing high Speed Internet for everyone. The earths orbit will soon be home to new constellations of satellites in the thousands could they make the vision of fast connectivity everywhere on earth a reality. Which regions in germany have the worst Internet Connection and how is performance measured. The Engineering Consultancy group p 3 specializes in gauging the signal strength of networks for mobile phone and internet providers. Its fleet of several dozen cars ferries it specialists all across europe to detect any gaps in coverage. Or the technicians measured the surfing speed of v
Doing less testing so we need fewer people so its cheaper and saw from our order of magnitude its maybe a bit more than 100. 00 but if you want to buy the satellite it will be a roughly a 1000000 and if you want to bury yourself right it will be way more than. One web and also google space x. And amazon plan to offer their Internet Services everywhere on earth in the process getting 4000000000 people on line. London based one web has an official license from the countrys airspace or storage and sees itself on a mission to bridge the digital divide. The companys current and potential future play on tile includes banks and lines shipping Companies Industry Disaster Relief agencies and the military. And consumers will initially be able to book the service fire local Telecom Providers and as already seen in the mobile phone sector the price will be lower in africa than in germany for example. Mike lins a previously worked in Systems Engineering for nasa and is part of the design team for t
Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran
Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go
Portion of the event they spoke with google Senior Vice President can walker and joined Lieutenant General shanahan. applause i hope everyone had a good lunch or finished a great launch, im joined with to Close Friends of mine and im probably the only person who can say this in the entire world, i work with and for both of them so i want to make sure i disclose my conflict of interest to start with, so general shanahan went to michigan, and entered the service of our country in 1984 he has been promoted again zillion times and in charge of whole bunch of operational activities and eventually we needed somebody operationally to implement ei in the entire d. O. D. And he was the Perfect Choice so i have worked with him in my role as chairman, can walk was a federal prosecutor law an order federal prosecutor who then chose to come to Silicon Valley, worked at ebay and then we snacked and maybe 15 years ago, every day together and during that time not only did he sell out our Legal Functio