Thousands of Peruvians have been getting online using Project Loon, a connectivity X Company from Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Project Loon is a global network of tennis court-sized high altitude balloons carrying a small box of equipment to beam internet access to a wide area below. The balloons ascend like weather balloons until they reach […]
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Google’s parent company Alphabet told a TED conference in Vancouver that its Project Loon Internet-delivery balloons had successfully delivered speeds of 15Mbps – fast enough for streaming video. It is preparing for carrier tests in Indonesia and elsewhere this year. Alphabet X head Astro Teller said that the company tried a lot of unsuccessful balloon designs […]
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Google is working on a way to provide Internet access around the world, using balloons. “Project Loon,” the latest “moonshot” project out of Google X Labs, will use a number of balloons to create a high-altitude network, with the aim of users getting 3G-speed Internet connections in the most remote parts of the world. The […]
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