Alphabet’s Loon launches balloon internet service in Kenya
East African nation becomes the first in the world to have base stations high up in the sky, to ‘be able to cover the whole country in a very short span of time’
08 July 2020 - 20:19
Alphabet began offering the world’s first commercial high-speed internet using balloons to villagers in remote regions of Kenya’s Rift Valley on Wednesday.
The service is run by Loon, a unit of Google’s parent Alphabet, and Telkom Kenya, the East African nation’s third-largest telecoms operator...
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