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EFE .- Alphabet , the parent company of Google technology, today announced a partnership with three major telephone operators in Indonesia to bring internet to remote areas of the country by “hundreds” of balloons hot air.
Two thirds of the people of Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, with more than 255 million people spread over 17,000 islands, have no access to internet.
The initiative is part of Project Loon from Google X, the research division of Alphabet working on ambitious ideas such as self vehicle.
“Every once in a while is healthy but not be communicated if it is part of your daily life and you do not have access to basic information and can not communicate with people who are close to you and is important to you and people around the world, that’s a big disadvantage “, said Google co-founder Sergey Brin , in a meeting with reporters at the headquarters of Google X in Mountain View (California ).
Brin attended the meeting with representatives of the Indonesian operators Indosat, Telkomsel and XL Axiata, as well as Vice President Project Loon, Mike Cassidy, who sat in front of one of the balloons aeroestáticos has created Google X.
Cassidy explained that the initiative, which has already been tested in Brazil, New Zealand and Australia In the three cases to a single operator, he is ready to go one step further by overcoming technical challenges and can now concentrate on improving connectivity worldwide.
“We have deployed about 1,000 balloons in the world. We have flown nearly 20 million kilometers and some of our balloons have been around the world 20 times “Cassidy said today on the tests conducted to date with balloons.
recalled that there are still 4,000 million people worldwide without Internet and stressed that a recent United Nations study says that an increase of 10% Internet penetration would result in an annual increase of 1.4% in the Gross domestic product (GDP) of a country.
He said, moreover, that the balloons act as communications towers but instead of being fixed on the ground flying about 20 kilometers above the surface of the Earth in the stratosphere.
The balloons, which move with the wind, they can be arranged so as to act as a communication network.
Brin insisted that Google X still considers the alliance with Indonesia as part of the trial period of the Loon Project, but said he was “thrilled” with the march of the initiative.
“We have been conducting an increasing number of tests and hereinafter: evidence for the flights of the balloons functioned, connectivity tests is very exciting that this will be of service to communities. which will make a difference, “said co-founder of Google.
Google X aims to bring the Internet in the coming years to over 100 million people currently lack access to the web, using connections powerful enough to see vudeos surfing the internet or shop online.
The Social Network Facebook t He works also on an initiative to bring the Internet to areas that are not connected now, but instead plans to use drones balloons.
Elon Musk, founder of the aerospace company SpaceX and co-founder of the firm Tesla electric vehicle plans to launch groups of cheap low-flying satellites distance to improve connectivity and British entrepreneur Richard Branson wants to build the largest constellation of satellites to provide high speed Internet to the billions who do not yet have.
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