Anurag wrote:
Sometime on Tuesday 06 March 2007 07:16, vivek khurana said:
Good idea Rony. But to sustain a satellite for 15 years you need to pay anual maintainance fee to some agency. How do you plan to arrange that fee
That money can be used to implement content distribution using IP-over-Boeing-737 and IP-over-Courier/Postal instead, and it will still be cheaper.
Star, Zee, Sony and other broadcasters should send us plane loads of CDs and DVDs of their programmes every month instead of satellite transmission. ;) World Space Radio should follow suit. The Boeing-737 can have a small opening in its belly so that the packages can be dropped over our buildings while the plane is in flight itself.
BTW, world space was created with the intention of reaching out all the inaccessible areas of Asia and Africa. They started with free transmission for some years.
The big distro players can make the Linux Download Satellite possible. Mark Shuttleworth has also been a space tourist.