Google to roll out Project Loon in Indonesia

A Google Project Loon balloon in flight. Image courtesy of Google.

Technology company Google has this week announced plans to roll out its Project Loon internet technology in Indonesia.

Starting in 2016, the company – now part of the ‘Alphabet’ conglomerate – will begin providing wireless internet to remote parts of the Indonesian Archipelago. To do this, Google is using a network of high altitude balloons which function as a wireless mesh network over an area.

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