[Tc] Google To Use 'Wireless Balloons' To Deliver Wi-Fi

Google will reportedly use Air balloons and satellites to provide Internet access to under-served countries.  It is interesting that Google is planning to build wireless networks around the world in emerging markets such as Africa and Asia, but what’s more interesting is how the web giant plans to deploy this plan. The company is actually planning to offer Wi-Fi in these areas by using balloons. Yes, you heard us right! Not through the conventional cable strings but rather via flying balloons.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Google is also supposedly planning to explore experimental methods to provide wireless connection to previously under served areas. These methods will include satellite Internet and the all new balloons plan, which will allegedly use high-altitude devices to blast wireless signals across hundreds of square miles.

This means that these aren’t just the conventional Wi-Fi routers tied on to the weather balloons. The devices will use different frequencies than those of television broadcasts.

So why is Google investing so much in hardware and engineering for underdeveloped areas? The Wall Street Journal in its report says that Google is just interested in increasing the user base into the Google sphere of apps and devices. This will in turn help Google to achieve considerable success in online advertising.

Way to go Google, you are doing some philanthropy too!

Source: http://www.efytimes.com/