Kenya to use Alphabet's balloons for rural internet
A Google Project Loon internet balloon is seen at the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 19, 2016.PHOTO | REUTERS
Kenya will use Alphabet Inc’s system of balloons to beam high-speed Internet access in hopes of connecting more of its rural population to the web, its ICT minister said.
Known as Project Loon, the technology was developed by Alphabet’s X, the company’s innovation lab.
