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... The surface segment would be made up of new fixed and portable spacewave receivers, each costing tens of dollars, would cost $10 billion on a worldwide basis. Although governments could finance the space segments of such a system, the private sector could reasonably be expected to finance and acquire the system and offer its services to government broadcasters throughout the world.
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