Google will start test Internet - beaming balloon in Indonesia next class , in the Leslie Townes Hope of connecting 100 millionmorepeople to the cyberspace .
Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands , most of which are riddled with mountains or thick jungle . This extreme geographics has made it more or less unimaginable to instal fibre optic cables or mobile signal towers . As such , nearly a third of the 4th most populated land in the world has been left without get to the cyberspace .
However , Google has come to the saving withProject Loon . Along with three Indonesian net service providers – Telkomsel , Axiata and Inmost – the tech colossus go for to start testing " balloon - power cyberspace " by next year .
The programme is to send up 12 - meter - improbable ( 39 - feet - marvellous ) helium - filled balloon around 20 kilometers ( 12.4 miles ) up into the stratosphere , where they can “ beam ” down Internet speeds of 10 megabits per second . Each balloon is load up with a solar panel , a flight reckoner with GPS and an altitude control system of rules .
On theGoogle Blog , the company said : “ The Internet is still out of reaching for too many people , but we ’re making progression . If all get going well , soon many more millions of citizenry in Indonesia will be able to institute their approximation , culture and businesses online . At that breaker point , the sky ’s the limit . ”
The Loon Project is part of a wider enterprisingness to link Indonesia up to the rest of the humanity . Just23 % of Indonesians own smartphones , so Google - Android are releasing affordable smartphones calledAndroid One . They ’ve also added Indonesian languages , such as Bahasa andSundanese , to Google Translate to receive them into the " cybernautical Earth . "
“ [ We demand ] about 300 balloon or so to make a uninterrupted string around the world , " Mike Cassidy , vice - president of Project Loon , told theBBC . " We desire next year to build our first continuous ringing around the humankind , and to have some sort of continuous coverage for sure area . "
