Alphabet's Loon Balloons Will Provide Internet To Remote Parts of the Amazon Next Year (theverge.com) 20
Yesterday, Alphabet's Loon announced that it has signed a new commercial agreement with Internet Para Todos Peru to provide mobile internet connectivity to parts of the Amazon rainforest in Peru starting in 2020. The Verge reports: Loon will use its high-altitude internet balloons to provide mobile internet from Telefonica to the selected areas. Telefonica is a part owner of Internet Para Todos Peru, a mobile infrastructure operator that is working to bring internet connectivity to remote populations in Latin America. Alphabet's blog says that the deployment will initially provide service to an area where nearly 200,000 people live, and that the deployment will make Peru the first country in Latin America to use high-altitude balloons to provide internet connectivity "on a sustained, non-emergency basis."
Remote parts of Amazon? (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Remote parts of Amazon? (Score:1)
Meh (Score:4, Insightful)
This is the same google that said they would roll out fiber to everywhere, then a year or so later, folded up their marketing tent and took their wallet and pie-in-the-sky ideas home? That google? I feel sorry for all the Peruvians that will get their hopes up, change their business models, and then be asked to bend over at a moments notice.
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PRISM direct.
Iran (Score:3)
Iran is completely isolated from the Internet right now, by State tyranny, and protesters are being executed.
How about lofting some Loons over Tehran, Google? Even if they're shut down you can claim you tried.
Too expensive for GOOG?
Re: Iran (Score:2)
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"How about lofting some Loons over Tehran,"
Target practice for the Revolutionary Guard
Re: Iran (Score:3)
The Shrinking Amazon (Score:3, Funny)
Provide Ads To Remote Parts of the Amazon (Score:1)
Welcome the good censor.
Ha (Score:3)
The search for the last missing consumers continues.
Chainsaw Orders (Score:1)
So what? So will Starlink. (Score:2)
And it won't just get cancelled within a couple of years, like everything google does that turns out to be hard.
Mining & logging rigs (Score:2)
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Without logging, where would we get wood and paper?
Without mining, where would we get gold and lead to make copper?
Re: Mining & logging rigs (Score:3, Insightful)
Finally! (Score:1)
Amazon Damage (Score:2)
ubiquitous internet (Score:1)
This will make the semi-autonomous deathbot tests much easier.