Google's Project Loon Will Bring Internet to 100 Million Indonesians
Nick Winchester | October 29, 2015
Alphabet, Google's new parent company, has announced that it is partnering with four Indonesian wireless carriers to test its internet balloon initiative.
Mike Cassidy, the project's chief, said that the testing—to be carried out in partnership with PT Indosat, PT Telekomunikasi Selular, and PT XL Axiata—will begin next year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Alphabet has already partnered on tests with Telstra in Australia, Vodafone in New Zealand and Telefónica in South America.
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| Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141120183525-225010998-google-project-loon |
Today only 2.7 billion people – a little more than one third of the world’s population—have Internet access.
<more at http://europe.newsweek.com/googles-project-loon-will-bring-internet-100-million-indonesians-335637; related links: http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-business/googles-project-loon-to-launch-internet-balloons-in-indonesia-/d/d-id/1322908 (Google's Project Loon To Launch Internet Balloons In Indonesia. Google joins a list of tech companies, including Facebook, that are taking to the skies to bring the Web to far-flung corners of the world. November 1, 2015) and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141120183525-225010998-google-project-loon (Google project-LOON. November 20, 2014)>
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