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How Declan Ganley is building the planet’s most unhackable internet – and taking fight to Elon Musk

But there are question over whether he raise the billions needed to build it, and fend off competition from China to Elon Musk

Declan Ganley, founder, Rivada Networks: Rivada has already announced a partnership to help provide satellite services to the US Space Force. Picture: Michael Dillon/Getty

Declan Ganley, the founder of Rivada Networks, has for nearly three decades been attempting to strike that one big deal.

Now, all of a sudden, he’s on the verge of it: a private, unhackable, satellite-based internet communications system he’s calling the OuterNet.

The system will operate off a licence for a tranche of radio spectrum that Rivada managed to obtain via an obscure Lichtenstein company, which it then transferred to a newly created subsidiary company ...