Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...

REUTERS - Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions, the ...

Google plans to deploy hundreds of Project Loon balloons in an effort to make fast internet more accessible to the citizens of Indonesia. The company will collaborate with Indonesian network operators ...

A Google Loon internet balloon floats over Butte on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. According to the Loon project website, which is now listed as discontinued, the goal was to bring internet access to remote ...

Google hopes to bring the internet to more people around the world through the use of high-altitude balloons, the internet services giant announced Saturday. Google says that two out of every three ...

Alphabet’s balloon-based Internet connectivity initiative, called Project Loon, is coming to the rescue in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Project Loon, which was originally conceived as a way to ...

Google’s Project Loon is sort of insane. Then again, that’s kind of the point. And to make it actually work, the squadrons of balloons are taking a cue from ...

Telkom Kenya’s ambitious plan to reach out to remote areas through Internet balloon project is in jeopardy following change of business plan by its key partners in the project Telkom Kenya was ...

The news that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is winding down its subsidiary Loon has dealt a blow to efforts to provide affordable Internet to under-served areas of the country. Loon Chief ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.

They’re not floating jellyfish, mysterious UFOs or a motley crew of Goodyear blimps. No, that bevy of balloons dotting flight-tracking maps 60,000 feet above the Carolinas is actually “beaming the ...