Alphabet's 'Project Loon' To Deliver Cheap Internet To Indonesia

[Lucian Armasu]

Project Loon, now under Alphabet (the new parent holding company of Google), partnered with three telecommunications firms from Indonesia to bring Internet access to over 100 million users.

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[TechyInAZ]

Great idea! Another advantage is the ping rates will still be extremely low, since it's not a satellite connection.

 

[tanjali]

I am just waiting for a day that someone Use 100 year old Tesla tech
in which he used The Earth ionosphere and radio waves faster than light 266 thousand miles per sec
to transfer video, pic and data (today's Internet) to other part of the Globe.
No lag , incredibly fast possibilities!

 

[MasterMace]

They'll think it's a great idea until the next typhoon

 

[Urzu1000]

They'll think it's a great idea until the next typhoon

I assume they already thought this through, but I would be very interested in seeing how they do it. They might simply be elevating the balloons above the storms during bad weather.

 

[joex444]

> radio waves faster than light

Just so everyone's clear on this, that's not physically possible.