Google Project Loon Goes Australia to Deliver Internet via Balloons

In an effort to bring internet to the unprivileged sections of the ecosphere under Google’s intriguing Project Loon, tech giant is preparing to launch test flights in Australia with the assistance of local telecom operator. Under the trial, 20 balloons will be launched across Western Queensland in the next month.
To accomplish the extraordinary task, Google has joined hands with Australia’s largest telecom company Telstra to beam internet down to the earth. Google announced earlier that it would get associated itself with the largest wireless carriers in the world to turn this project into reality. Telstra is giving Project Loon access to its base stations and a frequency band of 2.6GHz spectrum. Google is running similar tests with Britain’s Vodafone in New Zealand and Spain’s Telefonica in South America.
Project Loon depicts Google sheer determination to provide the internet to the entire world, especially those areas which are remote and cannot be accessed via ordinary means of communication. It is a network of high altitude balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people around the globe, help fill coverage gaps and to bring people back online after natural disasters.
This project is yet another amazing spectacle of the Google X lab. Google Loon equipped balloons will fly about 65000 feet above the sea level and provide the internet with the speed equal to that of 3G and 4G, with the help of latest computation techniques and complex algorithms to guide balloons to the projected directions. Balloons will communicate with specialized antennas along with higher frequencies.
Project Loon is potentially a ground breaking venture which will provide great business opportunities for the investors in telecom industry. Although the programme holds some complexities but Google is trying extensively to overcome those glitches. It would also help telecom operators to get accessed to those remote areas where there mainstream telecom infrastructure finds it difficult to go through.
Source: www.moremag.pk