If the “Loon” project is “disinflated”, it would have been necessary to remove Maria’s hurricane to allow access to the Internet

The Loon project, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google’s matrix), will start operating its globe system that will allow Internet access in remote areas affected by a natural disaster.

The owner of this initiative, who initiated in 2011, announced his presence, jueves, his executive director, Alastair Westgargh, who indicated that he did not find the form to maintain the costs “sufficiently low” as to be sustainable at large.

In Kenya, where it was launched as a pilot project this year to cover rural areas of low population density, Loon’s technology will be out of service on March 1, Telkom Kenya said.

The globes of Loon operate at 20 kilometers above sea level, due to aerial traffic, New Year’s Eve and climatic phenomena.

His role during the hurricane Maria

The gloons of the Loon were critical of the passing of the hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico when the majority of the population had no access to the Internet.

Taken place in October 2017 to host a connection with the use of helio-mounted globes in the stratosphere and launchers of Nevada. Instantly, more than 100,000 people and the island benefits.

The Loon Project is associated with telecommunications companies to extend the connection to remote zones so that all persons can access the Internet directly from telephones and other devices compatible with LTE technology.

The globes of the Loon Project, such as polyethylene filaments, have the shape of a tennis racket and are designed to extend more than ten days in the stratospheric antes to the earth.