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An affiliate of Google chose Kenya as the home of its first commercial agreement announced for the offer of Internet access to hard-to-reach areas use high altitude balloons
Loon, which is linked to Google by its parent company Alphabet Inc. says that will work with Telkom Kenya to offer cellular access 4G / LTE in Kenya in 2019
The balloons will be tested in central Kenya, which was difficult to repair due to mountainous terrain or inaccessible ] The high altitude balloons were already deployed in emergency situations in Peru and Puerto Rico where they helped areas devastated by floods and hurricanes.
million in the Earth still are not connected to the Internet . They tend to live in the poorest places with the least infrastructure to support it.
Since Google launched the project in 2013 its was to connect everyone on the planet . While encouraging more people to connect to Google's ambitions to make information "universally accessible and useful" it also increases the number of people who can use Google's advertising services.
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The announcement comes just a week after Loon was graduated from the factory of secret lunar cliches of Alphabet as X . This means that it is considered a complete society with other sister societies such as Google and the developer of Waymo self-taught
"We Westgarth says Alphabet marks a milestone on a journey that began in 2013 when a New Zealand sheep became one first to connect with the test balloons
Facebook was also attempting to offer the Internet through drones of 39; Solar energy Last year, he conducted a test flight over Arizona, after a previous flight that resulted in an accident.But last month, Facebook announced that he would stop manufacturing his own airplanes and that he would take charge of other high altitude connectivity initiatives.
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