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The Internet will be supplied from next year from balloons located at high altitude in the atmosphere, placed so as to maintain a continuous coverage.
Alphabet, Google's parent company, will roll out its Internet-based balloon-transmitters to Kenya for the first time to provide connections to remote areas, Alphabet's subsidiary Loon said on Thursday. to the point this technology. This is the first commercial deployment for Loon, Loon boss Alastair Westgarth said in a blog post.
Balloons, located at high altitude, will be placed to maintain continuous coverage. In collaboration with operator Telkom Kenya, Loon will supply internet from high-altitude balloons in the atmosphere from next year, positioned to maintain continuous coverage, Loon said. Alphabet announced last week to accentuate its efforts in Loon and Wing, its delivery drone project, by creating wholly-owned subsidiaries. Loon had already tested his system last year in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Facebook stops its program of drones capable of providing internet access. Another giant of the internet, Facebook, announced at the end of June that it was putting an end to its program of development of drones capable of bringing internet access to the parts of the planet which do not have one yet but that it would continue to work in this sector with industrial partners such as the aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
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