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Alphabet Shutting Down Loon, Its Balloon-Based Internet Alternative to Cell Towers

Alphabet Shutting Down Loon, Its Balloon-Based Internet Alternative to Cell Towers Loon aimed to bring connectivity to areas of the world where building cell towers is too expensive or treacherous by using balloons. By Reuters | Updated: 22 January 2021 10:18 IST Photo Credit: Medium Highlights Among challenges were that a carrier would need several balloons at once The company employed 200 people as of 2019 Google parent Alphabet is shutting down its Internet balloon business, Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cell towers, saying on Thursday that the road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped. Founded in 2011, Loon aimed to bring connectivity to areas of the world where building cell towers is too expensive or treacherous by using balloons the length of tennis courts to float solar-powered networking gear high above the Earth. But the wireless carriers that Loon saw as buyers of it

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Alphabet shuts down Loon internet balloon business

Loon launched a pilot project in Kenya in 2020 in partnership with Telkom, years behind schedule after regulatory delays.

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Alphabet winds down Loon, says it is just not commercially viable

Alphabet winds down Loon, says it is just not commercially viable
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Telkom Kenya ends internet balloon project

THE STANDARD SCI & TECH A Loon balloon. Google parent company, Alphabet, shut down Loon saying the internet balloon business was not commercially viable. 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 piloting the project with Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. However, Alphabet Inc announced shutting down its internet balloon business, Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cell towers, saying on Thursday that it was not commercially viable. Founded in 2011, Loon aimed to bring connectivity to areas of the world where building cell towers is too expensive or treacherous by using balloons the length of tennis courts to float solar-powered networking gear high above the Earth. But the wireless carriers that Loon saw as buyers of its technology have questioned its technical and political viability.

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