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October 30, 2015 04:00 am

Google Project Loon Balloons To Blanket Indonesia With Internet

An anonymous reader writes: Google's Project Loon is set to deliver high-speed internet access to more than 100 million Indonesians. The Project Loon program will fly clusters of balloons as high as 60,000 feet above Earth to transmit high-speed Internet signals down to Earth at LTE speeds. Google has been working with mobile network operators; XL Axiata, Telkomsel, and Indosat. “The emotional distance of the world is shrinking, thanks to the communications we enjoy today,” said Sergey Brin, who oversees the X lab as Alphabet’s president.

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