Can a balloon send away an internet service connection? Google's Alphabet has recently made a department dealing with creating the first commercial service in Kenya, located in Africa. The company's Loon division has created tennis court-sized balloons that said to hold up 4G LTE internet connection. This technology would be the new medium of companies to send the internet, even to the most rural places in the world.
Kenya now has internet!
Despite the great Loon project, the company was still criticized for why Kenya was chosen as the host country for the Loon project.
Some tech experts think that Kenya is not the right place to do the project. Compared to other more rural places, Kenya reportedly has an estimated 39 million out of 48 million people with a better internet connection. However, Loon still sees Kenya as the best spot for the project.
"Kenya is an ideal place for us to begin this new era of stratospheric communications," Alastair Westgarth, Loon's chief executive, said in an interview conducted by email. "The country has been incredibly innovative about finding new ways to connect unconnected populations. As a new, innovative technology, this is a great fit."
The Kenyan authorities, however, think that the project is still the best thing about their community. Though African countries are now reaching a larger scale of internet users, access to the internet connection to all the citizens is still deprived by most people. Not only that, but the charges for internet services are insanely high for all Africans.
