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 various websites including the up and down load of data and video streaming aborted transfers and sluggish intermittent connectivity indicate deficits in Network Quality to detect phones and and im computer phone the phones are being connected to a computer where a sound file is being played but im not just a tennis killer for the 1st 4 calls the 2nd one vendors are called and once that calls over theres a brief pause and then the 2nd phone calls the 1st one just come on thats repeated all day long so as to objectively determine our voice qualities and that we have got. The team also use speed test websites to check d. S. L. And landline connections on millions of computers worldwide. That enables or left to must play feel and their fellow engineers in us and to give providers an overview with Global Networks the information reveals how well or poorly competitive is up a full many. Of us its his aim and this is data gathered from losers around the world. About a piece of software that is integrated in around 900 apps is the software is into gear and these apps are installed on around 200000000. Devices well why and go and study up for not going to users agree to be involved in Network Quality assessment. Register the actual user experience. Wherever the user is using their device to download material all view video we can see in the background how good their Network Coverage was. Whether it was 3 g. Or 4 g. Which country which provider and a lot of other information we get our information not via the users but via the networks and thats. The biggest bottlenecks in coverage within germany or in the east of the country but some of the worst Internet Connection is down in the south west in the area around the town of bad 2nd and. Youre going to add beats has teamed up with other local residents calling for Free Internet and the local authorities are also helping to set up wife i hope spots across the area the only alternative is to use mobile phone providers across the border in switzerland albeit at a price. To the strides in its coverage from switzerland is great here is that i have a weak signal for a German Network and strong signals for 2 swiss we want to expand in kind of a kind of being unable to access data was on the road is a major problem for companies to come and services lies the competition which. I cant do after sales or carrier charges or orders i cant get my clients any information soon to get to students. And the Emergency Services cant get the data and information they need to help people whove had an accident. Some areas here are so remote that Network Providers are reluctant to invest in installing broadband cables and that includes places along some of germanys highways and other non urban roads democratic side project mission. So you cant use the time on the road for a couple of phone conversations because the call will cut out every 2 or 3 minutes so you have to reconnect it its not worth it for a kind telephone dot. Com kind of people who have an accident out here might get lucky and pick up a couple of radio waves otherwise they have to walk to the next inhabited building and ask for systems because basically like a mere 991 but those beautiful landscapes can also cause major headaches when it comes to expanding Network Coverage is probably most of the us with the problem is the demography high in the north 2nd in the finale surrounded by the black forest hills features that are unfavorable for network planners. And its practically impossible to provide that density of coverage with conventional Technology Fast i think they can get comments in a location and here too there are companies that are completely dependent on fast broadband connections to the rest of the world. Software specializes in the digitalisation of the global working world providing solutions for shifts said jills and interactive management. Birds aching and its home to both the companies are indeed department and its Global Sales Division the company would have had to close its premises in the town had it not been for some Smart Solutions devised by its own developers. Only had radio conferences here every day online presentations from remote system configurations and Online Training sessions and that requires a fast Internet Connection our founder and director im trying. To live all still in the us so we also need a good connection to that office we have this hunger for data and its growing every day. Down in the basement the Software Engineers managed to solve their internet problem by combining a range of different elements of the household linked up a number of Internet Connection to a d. S. L. Line of a cable connection and are planning to throw a 3rd anchor across 1st responder but basically theres an excellent l. T. E. Network just a few 100 meters away on here and were linking up all his lines to create a very fast Internet Connection and internet from the. Technical obstacles alone mean that makeshift Solutions Like this and not an option for private individuals and thats a gap that youre going to add beats wants to fill he and his fellow Free Internet activists have installed free wifi in most public buildings in bad checking and. You have plaster thats a Crystal Clear reception. They cost more before but its a big Network Providers or most of them offer customers a voice over ip option was the fatah the advantage there is that people can then make phone calls via y. 5 and for the household with the right contract you can now phone people for free the enter that talks on its own. Bad 2nd already has dozens of Free Internet terminals enabling local people to surf and make phone calls were going to set his sights even higher however on fiber in the sky a fast Internet Connection via satellite. Harbor in the skies 101. 00 america started firing a star is definitely an option but it avoids the need to dig up roads everywhere which is what prevents Network Expansion of hires and carol me out of art providing the right hand with your fiber optic cables and laying 3 or 4 or 5 kilometers of cables thats extremely expensive in a hilly area with hard ground fiber in this car comes from above the sky come from everyone has their own direct receiver and high Speed Internet about a. Coup in French Guiana is the launch pad to air bus and arianespace satellites they orbit the earth at an altitude of 36000 kilometers and always above the same point they serve primarily to transfer t. V. And radio broadcasts. The Geostationary Communications satellites are assembled into lose from. They way up to 6 times and have an operating life of 25 years each satellite is highly complex and custom built and can cost up to 250000000. 00 euros. And thats why current satellite based Internet Connections are so expensive demand for this option however is continually on the rise. Rinker panama has been part of a revolution in satellite design in recent years from individual components to mass production. In fact today from the the design to the dead you very to the question are we can provide such advice and is that 2 years 1st is quite so short. An innovation empowered Technology Systems heralded a new era in satellite construction. For satellites or elbows developed. So for us. A big gainer in terms of mass at lunch any turlough hosts. To have more equipment on board and to have an it is an interesting a cost at launch as well. Geostationary satellites orbit the earth at a distance of 36000 kilometers. Even at light speed a signal down below needs 500 milliseconds to reach a satellite thats half a 2nd. That delay or latency during phone calls means that the people talking constantly interrupted each other. In order to ensure a smooth Online Gaming experience that time has to be under 100. 00 milliseconds while a delay of just 20 milliseconds will cause orchestral musicians to fall out of sync with each other. With effects of internet reception not possible with current geostationary orbit the satellites need to be broke closer to what is called low earth orbit Companies Planning to install satellite constellations include one web google space x. And amazons blueridge in. The closer a satellite is to earth the smaller the terrestrial surface that can reach which is why it would take hundreds if not thousands of smaller satellites to cover the entire planet and thats a problem alone in terms of sheer production capacity. The Consortium Led by one where also includes Virgin Galactic air bus defense and space and tech giant softbank together theyve pulled close to 3 and a half 1000000000. 00 to make the dream of global Internet Access a reality. This provided specific expertise to enable the mass production of satellites. So it was a big challenge in fact as you know we are really. Experimental you know. Its a. Big satellite production but for mass production it was a challenge to provide a satellite even though a few days compared to here where we have a life here in tunis integration takes around 9 months and. 3 days which was a really crazy fall for the market and so today we developed a lot on the way of satellites facilities city is currently at one satellite day one with plans to launch its Global Service in 2021 with 650 satellites orbiting at an altitude of 1200 kilometers the next step involves the constellation being expanded to more than 2000 units which has in turn required the development of completely new production methods. Rockdale so its a test engineer he oversees a production setup that manages with a minimum of human impacts the newly designed Propulsion Systems are also built here in scaled down versions the fuel tanks filled with zen on gas provided by an unexpected source. Spacecraft is going to move from one point in space to 000 workers is going to put a special ops to certain altitude but then the satellites need to reach much higher out the true and were going to do that by users trust or so its. Just for firefighters its designed by a company but do you actually know how to do space so its much cheaper than more traditional tax. Once superstar is done with all the assembly again we really want to avoid human errors so the way were going to do that were going to take a picture of this here and the pictures of it being take it will be compared to reference picture and basins to do differences will be able to save save ourselves on a good job you know. With human error essentially ruled out high volume production is possible with short turnaround times. When youre doing life of a kind its easier to get cheaper and i reckon price. Terms of testing we are doing less testing so we need fewer people so we cheaper and saw from our order of magnitude is maybe a bit more than 100. 00 but if you want to buy the stock loads if you 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 in the process of getting 4000000000 people online. London based one web has an official license from the countrys aerospace authority and sees itself on a mission to bridge the digital divide. The companys current and potential future cleone tell includes banks and lines shipping Companies IndustryDisaster 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. My kids a previously worked in Systems Engineering for nasa and is part of the design team for the one web satellite constellation the company was the 1st among the competing consorted to receive approval from the International Telecommunications union a United Nations agency. And that license is absolutely mandatory for providing the service the one word system uses radio frequency spectrum in order to send information. To customers to provide this Broadband Internet connectivity you need spectrum thats a span of radio wave flags in order to transmit information at high to raise the. Spectrum that you have the more data that you can provide and because you are used to these these Broadband Speeds of being able to stream video and send information very quickly back and forth we need a lot of spectrum in order to provide that Super Service to so many people. Designing a constellation of satellites in Constant Contact with each other and the earth is a complex undertaking. It involves a number of technical processes to function at the same time processes that have no precedence. The brain of the constellation the Ground NetworkOperations Center is in london its headed by alan here at. Home where were responsible for looking after they the Ground Network so were going to call functions 1st of all we provide Situational Awareness so we look for anomalies in the ground that work out where they occur we work to resolve this quickly. And secondly we do what we call a resource part and Resource Plan is really the cranes of how the system works which brings together the ground that work can turn as the spacecraft and the pay out of natural user you chase the ground stations run automatically and the fitted with 30 antennae each maintaining contact with 30 satellites. Recurrently just to fully functional stations one in spitsbergen norway and the other on sicily to complete Global Coverage distributed across the planet you would need just 45. 00 ground stations interconnected. Very quickly as you say were going to be scaling up. Q 2 next year were going to be out in 3 ground stations every month since a huge ramp october. Doing today today is all about testing and integration next year is all going to be about drinking cross stations and. The ground stations always seek the best possible connection to the satellite that is closest to the user and can provide the best possible bandwidth. The relevant signal shifts from one satellite to another with the use the remaining blissfully unaware. The one Web Consortium is currently ahead of rivals google space x. And amazon and by the end of 2021 it hopes to have a constellation numbering 650. 00 satellites going to either way the earths orbit is set to get a lot of traffic in the near future how will the engineers ensure that there are no collision. So something were doing at one where is is actually enhanced seeing our safety by separating each plane in the cost solution so there are multiple planes of multiple satellites each and if theyre all at the same altitude you have the sort of crossing point where salaries are zipping past each other at very high velocities so what we do is we separate those crossing points so the salaries are actually not zipping past one another when that means as were actually in some regards we only have to manage a single plane at a time and you can apply that same principle to other Cost Solutions so we are maintaining. Many kilometers of separation between space x. Space x. Is separate from the type or the amazon constellation and thats a very important safety detail to make sure that operators are not trying to launch an operate hundreds of thousands of satellites within the same amount of space. Sounds like constellations not