Google blimps
will carry wireless signal across Africa ... Wired UK - "Search giant Google
is intending to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia , using high-altitude balloons and blimps.
The company is intending to finance, build and help operate networks from sub-Saharan Africa toSoutheast Asia , with the
aim of connecting around a billion people to the web.
To help enable the campaign, Google has been putting together an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android on low-power microprocessors. Rather than traditional infrastructure, Google's signal will be carried by high-altitude platforms - balloons and blimps - that can transmit to areas of hundreds of square kilometres. ..."
The company is intending to finance, build and help operate networks from sub-Saharan Africa to
To help enable the campaign, Google has been putting together an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android on low-power microprocessors. Rather than traditional infrastructure, Google's signal will be carried by high-altitude platforms - balloons and blimps - that can transmit to areas of hundreds of square kilometres. ..."