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Project Loon partnered with AT&T and T-Mobile to deliver emergency internet service to the hardest hit parts of the island.
While the wind at 20km might blow one way, the wind at 19km might blow another. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has approved the Loon Project by Google and Telkom Kenya to provide internet to Kenyans countrywide as they work from home during the Coronavirus outbreak.. The executives of five other wireless carries including Telkom Indonesia, Vodafone New Zealand, and French giant Orange SA have revealed that Loon is presently not up to the standard. Project Loon research balloon. Even after being given a launch nod by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), the project was stalled by lack of additional licensing from the Ministry of Transport and the KCAA.
Google’s project loon, developed by X with the mission of providing internet access to rural and remote areas is now a reality in Kenya.
In Kenia handelt es sich nun aber nicht um einen Katastrophenfall, sondern um die erste kommerzielle Nutzung der Ballons. Project Loon (simply called “Loon” since 2018) is Google’s far-fetched and fanciful idea to connect the world’s digitally unconnected areas with balloons. The company uses high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere at an altitude of 18 km (11 mi) to 25 km (16 mi)to create an aerial wireless network with up to 1 Mbps speeds per minute.
Project Loon partnered with AT&T and T-Mobile to deliver emergency internet service to the hardest hit parts of the island. Read Article. ... Much of Kenya…
These carriers expect Loon to demonstrate that the technology is stable, safe, and profitable. Dort konnte man knapp 40.000 Quadratkilometer mit dem Internet aus der Luft abdecken, was in etwa der Fläche der gesamten Schweiz entspricht. Alphabet's Loon project said Thursday that its balloons will bring internet to remote parts of Kenya next year. As with the initial testing phase, Project Loon’s now commercial service with the “internet balloons” is still in partnership with Telkom Kenya.
Loon plans to spend the first half of 2019 testing things, before Telkom Kenya begins using the balloon-based network to provide mobile phone service to the country’s rural millions. This means that Telkom will now have a wider network coverage of their 4G network, especially in remote areas. Google's Project Loon is set for its first commercial trial in Kenya, bringing balloon-powered internet to some of the most remote villages in Africa. Currently, Kenya's major cities--with over 45 million people--use operator networks for connectivity, but rural Kenya is not included, said Reuters.
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