Alphabet’s Project Loon Will Help Restore Cell Service in Puerto Rico
Technology enthusiasts may recall that Google has been experimenting with a concept known as Project Loon. This initiative would effectively bring internet connectivity to rural regions of the world through the use of hot air balloons.
It now appears this technology will be used in Puerto Rico as a way to restore cell phone services after the recent hurricane that hit the island. It’s an interesting development, even though it took a natural disaster before regulators saw the merit in this concept.
While it sounds pretty ambitious to use balloons for any form of communication service these days, Google is fairly confident it can successfully do so.
Project Loon was initially designed several years ago as a way to provide internet connectivity to rural areas where access to the internet is expensive. Ever since that time, not much had been heard about the project, until earlier this week.