Loon, the balloon-centric project attempting to connect people to the internet, is live in Kenya, according to Alastair Westgarth from the company in a Medium blog post. The Alphabet subsidiary is described in the blog post as “a network of floating cell towers,” or balloons...
Loon, an Alphabet-owned high-altitude balloon internet access provider, has teamed up with Internet para Todos (IpT), a mobile infrastructure firm that’s part owned by Telefonica and whose name translates to internet for everyone, to provide internet access to hard to reach places in Latin America,...
January 22, 2021
Google’s parent company Alphabet is pulling the plug on its subsidiary Loon, a futuristic venture that for the past decade was exploring the use of giant helium balloons to deliver internet access to remote locales. “Loon has been chasing the hardest problem of all in connectivity — the last billion users,” Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth […]
July 08, 2020
Loon, the balloon-centric project attempting to connect people to the internet, is live in Kenya, according to Alastair Westgarth from the company in a Medium blog post. The Alphabet subsidiary...
November 21, 2019
Loon, an Alphabet-owned high-altitude balloon internet access provider, has teamed up with Internet para Todos (IpT), a mobile infrastructure firm that’s part owned by Telefonica and whose name translates to...
