Google's Project Loon to start serving Internet Access to 100 million Indonesians by 2016

Описание: Starting next year, the top three mobile network operators in Indonesia will begin testing Google's Project Loon balloon-powered Internet.
According to Google's parent company Alphabet, over the next few years, the Project Loon will help put high-speed LTE Internet connections within reach of more than 100 million Indonesians, giving them access to the limitless educational, cultural, and economic opportunities of the Internet.

In Indonesia today, only about 1 out of every 3 people are connected to the web, and most of their connections are painfully slow. Many people live in areas without existing Internet infrastructure;

Indonesia is having over 17,000 islands, with mountains and jungles, it’s difficult to run fiber optic cable or install mobile phone towers. That’s where Loon comes in. Loon balloons act like floating cell phone towers in the sky. Flying on the winds at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, each one beams a connection down to the ground; as one balloon drifts out of range, another moves in to take its place. This could help local operators extend the coverage of their existing networks, and reach further into rural and remote areas.

News Source: https://googleblog.blogspot.in/2015/1...
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