Google is getting on board with a new push to bring high-speed Internet access to parts of world still unconnected. The company has joined Liberty Global and HSBC to fund a startup called “O3b Networks” — short for the “other 3 billion” people who can’t yet surf the Net. The group will install 16 low-cost satellites to bring affordable access to emerging markets across Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The service, expected to be ready to launch by late 2010, aims to take the place of the fiber networks typically used in more developed nations.
