A Chinese Company Will Offer Free Wi-Fi To Everyone On Earth

In the future, people may not be worried about the lack of Wi-Fi on the streets and at places where 3G does not work because a Chinese company has announced its plans to offer free Wi-Fi for people around the world and to rival with Space X and Google. According to the proposal, China's internet technology company will put into space a constellation consisting of 272 satellites by 2026. These satellites capable of broadcasting free Wi-Fi to the whole world.

The company is called LinkSure Network, which was established in 2013 in Shanghai. According to the company's information published on its website, it operates primarily in the field of global mobile Internet, in particular providing free internet through its applications and services.

LinkSure currently has over 900 million users in more than 223 different regions and countries. They mostly use the Wi-Fi Master Key mobile application to access Wi-Fi in their neighborhoods without entering passwords.

The first satellite to be launched is at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in Northwest China. And so by 2020, 10 satellites will be launched into space. There will be 272 satellites in total, and all will be entirely launched in space by 2026. Details of the first satellite to be launched in space on this constellation were announced on 27 November.

Wang Jingying, the managing director of LinkSure Network, has announced that the company will invest 3 billion yuan (about $431.4 million) in a plan to put a satellite constellation into space. Although this is a huge amount, she believes that the company can achieve its goals through business applications and different modes are giving very positive results.

According to UN research, by the end of 2017, the world still had 3.9 billion people not connected to the Internet. Due to the terrain, many places in the world don't have telecommunication networks so people in that area can't access Wi-Fi or 3G. If this satellite constellation plan is successfully deployed, people from everywhere of the world can access and connect to the Internet for all purposes.

China's LinkSure is not the only company targeting free Wi-Fi for the planet. Many companies such as Telesat, SpaceX, Google, and OneWeb have plans to launch satellites to make it possible for everyone to access the Internet everywhere for free.

An early statement of Goldman Sachs said that trading in the commercial space market would be a very profitable long-term opportunity, worth billions of billions of dollars in 20 years. The aerospace industry is expected to reach $ 2.7 trillion by 2045, according to forecasts by Merrill Lynch Bank of America.

Huang Zhicheng, an aerospace technologist, commented that investing in these projects was not the same as investing in economic projects that brought in immediate profits. In his opinion, investors should be patient even though profits have not come in for many years as this is still a potential market.

Every developed country has its own facilities for researching such projects. The US Global Positioning System (GPS) is a rival to China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), which is currently under construction. Also, there are the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) of Russia, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) of Japan, Galileo Positioning System of the European Union.

India is also building its own navigation system called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). It is also known as Navigation with Indian Constellation (NAVIC). This center was opened to serve the Indians in the area of 1500 km from the boundary of the headquarter. This is also the first area of its operation and is likely to expand in the future.