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(ICT Mag) – After the technical success of New Zealand in 2013, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced on July 19, 2018 that it will deploy in 2019 in Kenya for the first time. times his Internet balloon-transmitters. It is in fact the first commercial deployment of this tool developed by the firm and which should provide Internet connectivity in remote areas of Kenya, where for commercial reasons, conventional telecom operators do not prefer to venture. [19659002] For this project, Loon, a newly independent subsidiary that was previously part of the research projects of the X Lab Alphabet, will work in partnership with the country's leading operator, Telkom Kenya. In a blog post, Alastair Westgarth, Loon's boss explains overall that he will provide " as early as 2019 from the internet since balloons located at high altitude in the atmosphere, placed so as to maintain coverage in continuous . " Note that Loon had already tested his system in 2007 in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. With the announced start of this project, Google becomes the first multinational to offer this type of connectivity in Africa, after the failure of the Facebook program aimed at developing drones capable of providing internet access to parts of the planet that are not do not have any yet.
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