Google spinoff aims to provide global connectivity with space lasers
A startup that uses novel connectivity technologies developed by Google promises to ‘revolutionize communications networks across land, sea, air, and space’.
A startup that uses novel connectivity technologies developed by Google promises to ‘revolutionize communications networks across land, sea, air, and space’.
Loon, the much-hyped Google-backed project to connect difficult to reach areas to the Internet, is no more; the company is winding down due to high costs.
Alphabet’s novel solution to connecting the unconnected has had its first non-emergency deployment in Kenya.
Google-owned balloon connectivity firm Loon has officially signed its second customer, Internet para Todos Perú, to deliver the internet to remote regions in the Peruvian Amazon.
Commercial contract negotiations with Telefonica Peru have allowed Google’s Loon to respond to Amazonian earthquakes within 48-hours of receiving the call.
Alphabet’s latest X graduate Loon has added industry heavyweights to its advisory board as the business searches for commercial credibility in the world of connectivity.
The idea of using balloons floating 20km above the earth to provide connectivity quite frankly sounds bat-sh*t, but Google’s Loon is actually starting to look like a feasible business.
The Loon team have signed its first commercial deal with Telkom Kenya to deploy a pilot 4G network in suburban and rural areas of the country.
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