Africa: Google's Project Loon Balloons to Beam High-Speed Internet to Rural Africa

Googles Project Loon is using a network of balloons to provide internet connectivity. The technology is ideal in disaster scenarios and for facilitating connectivity to remote areas around the world.

Google's innovation lab -Alphabet's X- has developed technology known as Project Loon. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide.

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