The Aquila Drone is an extension of the work that Internet.org has pioneered.
We’ve touched upon Internet.org several times in our list but now we have to describe what it really is. The website is a partnership utilizing several social networking services. Their goal is to make the internet affordable and make it accessible to developing countries that have no other options. Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the committee have admitted that satellites have their place in the conversation but that they are not the answer to the internet problem that many developing countries are facing. Project Aquila is the next link in the chain for what Internet.org is trying to do.
Facebook wants 11,000 drones in the sky.
Mark Zuckerberg is not a man of small vision. From the very onset of his career he was aiming for the stars. Now his internet expansion plan is going to be just as ambitious and, likely, just as successful. Facebook bought an entire drone making company out just so that they could have everything on hand for their ambitious first phase: 11,000 drones. Purchasing Titan Aerospace cost Facebook almost $50 million dollars at the end of the day. This actually isn’t even a huge investment for the mega rich Zuckerberg and the rest of his crew at Facebook. At the end of the day the company wants to put 11,000 of these light weight drones in the sky for the first phase of their expansion.