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Google to Establish sub-Saharan Wi-fi Networks Using Blimps, Balloons & TV Airwaves

Google to Establish sub-Saharan Wi-fi Networks Using Blimps, Balloons & TV Airwaves

From Wired UK

Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps.

The company is intending to finance, build and help operate networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, with the aim of connecting around a billion people to the web.

To help enable the campaign, Google has been putting together an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android on low-power microprocessors. Rather than traditional infrastructure, Google’s signal will be carried by high-altitude platforms – balloons and blimps – that can transmit to areas of hundreds of square kilometres.

Read more at wired.co.uk