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gemini is a leading industrial nation that still has many areas that desperately lag behind on the telecoms fronts and that applies to base landlines and internet access broadband speed rankings constantly fluctuates germany ranks in the mid thirty's 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 earth's orbit will soon be home to new constellations of satellites in the thousands could they make the vision of fast connectivity everywhere. ronna

a reality. which regions in germany have the worst internet connection and how is performance measured. the engineering consultancy group p 3 special licensing 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 of the

telephone isn't and i'm computer for on the phones or being connected to a computer where a sound file is being played and i'm more of just a tennis killer for the 1st phone calls the 2nd one vendors are called and once that calls over there's a brief pause and then the 2nd phone calls the 1st one. and that's repeated all day long so as to objectively determine the voice quality picture of images we have cut . the team also use the test websites to check d.s.l. and landline connections on millions of computers worldwide. that enables or less give each to must play fee and death fellow engineers in $100.00 to give providers an overview of global networks the information reveals how well or poorly competitive is up a filming lost its hears them and this is data gathered from users around the world . about a piece of software in. he's integrated in our 900 apps is the software into 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 this out won't register the actual user experience. wherever the user is using their device to download material or view videos we can see in the background how good their network coverage was and. whether it was 3 g. or 4 g.'s which country which provider and a lot of other information we get our information not via the users but via the networks. that's. 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 2nd and.

you're going 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 so yes and if 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 wire at the expense of a kind of being unable to access data was on the road is a major problem for companies from and services lies the time. i can't do after sales or carry out charges or orders i can't get my clients any information this into getting students. and the emergency services can't get the data and information they need to help people who 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 germany's

highways and non-urban roads oh my god it's either fox or me. so you can't 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's not worth it for a kind telephone. they are loaded one for the ham kind of people who have an accident out here might get lucky and pick up a couple of radios otherwise they have to walk to the next inhabited building and ask for assistance because this is 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 problem is the demography high but not 2nd in the finale surrounded by the black forest hills features that are unfavorable for network planners. and it's practically impossible to provide that density of coverage with conventional technology fast i think they can get comments on 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. and interactive management. bad checking in it's 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 being for some smart solutions devised by its own developers. don't help india 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. of austin in the us so we also need a good connection to that office we have this hunger for data and it's growing every day. down in the basement the software engineers managed to solve their internet problem by combining a range of different elements to get half of linked up

a number of internet connection has a d.s.l. line a cable connection and are planning to throw a 3rd anchor on cross the 1st responder but basically there's an excellent l.t.e. network just a few 100 meters away from here and we're linking up all of these 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 that's a gap that you're going add beats wants to fill he and his fellow free internet activists have installed free wife i in most public buildings in bad 2nd and. last lot that's a crystal clear reception of. the course. but it's 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 the a-y. 5 parts and for the household with the right contract you can now phone people for free b.

and about foxconn it's one. bad 2nd in already has dozens of free internet terminals enabling local people to surf and make phone calls we're going to set his sights even higher however on fiber in the sky a fast internet connection via satellite. fiber in the sky is a fundamental fiber in a star is definitely an option but it avoids the need to dig up roots everywhere which is what prevents network expansion carol me of are providing the right band with your view of iraq to cables and laying 3 or 4 or 5 kilometers of cables that's 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 the 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 that's why current satellite based internet connections are so expensive demand for this option however is continually on the rise. the wrinkle panama has been part of a revolution in satellite design in recent years from individual components to mass production. in fact today from the design she said you've only to the

customer we can provide such advice and there's that 2 years 1st it's quite short. an innovation in power technology systems heralded a new era in satellite construction. satellites are elbows developed. but mission so for us. a big gain in terms of mass at lunch any so along. to have more equipment on board and to have an it is an interesting no 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 that's half a 2nd and. that delay or latency

jaring 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 amazon's blue we're a gent. the closer a satellite is to earth the smaller the terrestrial surface it can reach which is why it would take hundreds if not thousands of smaller satellites to cover the entire planet and that's 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 they've 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. that was a big challenge in fact as you know we are really. experimental. let's say a. big satellite projection but for mass production it was a challenge to provide a satellite. a few days compared to here where we have like here in tunis integration takes around 9 months and. 3 days which was a really crazy fall for the market and so today we give up to let. him know what

the way. i see it is as if he 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 as 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 of the fuel tanks filled with zen on gas provided by an unexpected source. here is the spacecraft is going to move from one point of space to 0.0 workouts is going to put

a special ops to certain altitude but then the satellites need to reach much higher altitude and we're going to do that by use of trust or so it's. just for firefighters it's designed by a company that you actually know how to the space so it's much cheaper than more traditional checks. once superstars don't move all the assembly again and we really want to avoid human errors so the way we're going to do that we're going to take a picture with the circumference here and the pictures of him doing so will be compared to a reference picture and very flimsy do differences will be able to save ourselves on a good job. with human error essentially ruled out high volume production is possible with short turnaround times. when you're doing life of a kind.