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Now only around one in three Indonesians are connected to the internet, and connections are often “painfully slow”, the company said.
Each balloon-or, to be more precise, “envelope”, as Google describes it is equipped with solar panels, a flight computer, GPS system, and multiple data transceivers… all that stuff you’d expect to be found on something that flies around bringing Internet service to people below.
Indonesia will allow more foreign e-commerce investors in their country.
Google’s well-known project Loon is about to start and with the beginning of it people of the certain region can see an internet balloon constantly floating in the sky.
Today, most developed countries have extensive high-speed connectivity via physical landline, satellite, and mobile network access opportunities.
Although the project is still being funded primarily by money that Google makes from digital advertising, it recently became part of an independent lab called X that is run by Google’s new parent company, Alphabet Inc. About 250 million people live in the country composed of about 17,000 islands in that part of Southeast Asia, although only 42 million have Internet access, according to the CIA’s estimates. The facility is expected to provide Internet connectivity to 100 million people.
Keeping that in mind, Google thinks Project Loon will be just the right fit.
One of Project Loon’s key aims is to build a continuous ring of balloons around the Earth by 2016.
The Indonesian terrain comprises dense jungles and high mountains, which makes it hard for installing mobile towers let alone fiber optic cables for high-speed Internet.
Three-year-old Project Loon will be launching a network of balloons on the edge of space in an attempt to provide an Internet connection to people living in rural and remote areas. Other Australian and Sri Lankan companies have also signed up to have balloon-driven internet access. The results of the pilot test, as well as subsequent tests in New Zealand, California’s Central Valley and in Northeast Brazil, are being used to improve the technology in preparation for the next stages of the project, the website says.
