ASSOCIATED PRESS: Google wants to transmit the Internet from balloons to places that otherwise can’t get the service.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Google wants to transmit the Internet from balloons to places that otherwise can’t get the service.
The balloons will begin hovering in the stratosphere above Indonesia in an expansion of the project announced Wednesday. About 250 million people live on 17,000 islands in that part of Southeast Asia, although only 42 million have Internet access, according to CIA estimates.
Google’s 2-year-old “Project Loon” program aims to change that by transmitting high-speed Internet signals from clusters of balloons floating about 60,000 feet above the Earth.
