Internet Expansion
Internet access and affordability remains a big problem, not only in the U.S. but especially across the world. In some developing countries - comprising billions of people - there remains to be very practical, widespread internet access at all.
For those of us who worry about spending too much of our work and free time connected to the World Wide Web, this may sound incredible: of the 15 percent of American adults who are usually offline, the largest percentage of them shun the internet because they don't find it relevant to their lives.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and CEO of the social media giant, wants more people to be on the internet. In fact, he wants to help about 5 billion people in developing countries to get in on the internet economy (which of course, includes Facebook).
Google took its first steps toward providing internet access to people in remote areas and less developed places by launching high altitude balloons, which the company hopes will one day carry a network in the stratosphere for everyone on the ground.
On Monday, Comcast announced plans to dramatically expanded their WiFi service to its customers by doubling up their Xfinity Internet customers' internet access. They have announced that each Xfinity Internet residential customer will be broadcasting a public WiFi signal at no additional cost to give Xfinity Internet customers on the go millions of new WiFi access points to choose from. While this does not mean more internet per household, it will not cost residential customers extra, and is a separate WiFi signal, so residential customers can keep their private WiFi private.
