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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — A Google-affiliated company has chosen Kenya as the home of its first announced commercial deal for delivering internet access to hard-to-reach areas using high-altitude ...

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 ...

A fleet of balloons has begun providing internet service to remote areas of Kenya, Google's Project Loon and Telkom Kenya announced. It's the first balloon-powered internet to launch in Africa, and ...

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, called this week on the administration of President Joe Biden to greenlight a plan to transmit the internet to people in Cuba via high-altitude balloons ...

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 ...