Direction (Qs.1 to 8): Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

If you hate your internet provider, the good news is that in the next five to 10 years, you may have the opportunity to ditch it in favor of a system that transcends regional monopolies, requires no visits by the cable guy and follows you wherever you go. That’s because just over the horizon there will be constellations of satellites orbiting the Earth at high speed, providing fast satellite internet directly from space. The reasons this is happing now are myriad, but it wouldn’t be happening as quickly if not for the whims of eccentric billionaires – notably Jeff Bezos through Amazon’ just-revealed subsidiary project Kuiper, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Richard Branson of Virgin Orbit – all of whom have plans to launch satellites to provide internet.

Wireless communications from outer space as old as the space race itself. It was radio transmissions from the “new moon” of Sputnik that helped fuel America’s ambitions for outer space, after all. But a number of factors have converged to make it so internet from space could become just one more marvel we can all take for granted. Driving things on the demand side is our insatiable need for more and faster and always-on connections to the internet, plus a growing digital divide between those close enough to terrestrial to get high-speed connections and those who go without.

OneWeb, which already has launched its first six satellites out of a planned minimum of 650, wants to change the lives of such remote internet users by connecting to the ground from satellites that pass in and out of view of an antenna on Earth’s surface every three minutes. Orbiting at 16,200 miles per hour, these satellites will have 16 Independent radio beams, each with the ability to send and receive 400 megabits per second of data. It’s hard to know exactly what that will mean for speeds for end users because everything depends on how popular the service is. Space internet, it turns out, means more band with but not an end to wireless bandwidth issues.

Satellite internet like the kind currently offered by Iridium, one of the few companies that already offers internet from low-earth orbit, is expensive and slow and mostly just connects airplanes and cruise ships and oil rigs in the North Atlantic. It’s the possibility of making it accessible to smart connected cars of the future and homes and businesses and even individual mobile devices that has made it so appealing to so many companies. These companies play their cards close, but SpaceX, Amazon and Facebook have all seen detailed plans for their potential satellite networks leak through filings with the Federal Communications Commission and International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency that manages global wireless spectrum. While Google no longer appears to be building its own satellites, it has agreed to license technology to Canadian satellite operator Telesat for its own network of satellites.