Google Launches BALLOONS to Bring Wi-Fi Internet to Remotest Places on Earth:
Google has launched 30 balloons into the stratosphere from New Zealand as it experiments with ways to bring affordable internet access to the world.
Google has launched 30 balloons into the stratosphere from New Zealand as it experiments with ways to bring affordable internet access to the world.
Nicknamed Project Loon, the internet giant
is sending the superpressure balloons 12 miles up into the air, where
they will sail around the globe at twice the altitude of aeroplanes.
The helium-filled balloons inflate to 49ft
in diameter and carry transmitters that could beam 3G-speed internet to
some of the 4.8billion people in the world that are not yet online,
supplying an area of about 780 square miles - twice the size of New York
City.
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