The search giant, better known as Google, plans to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons or airships.
The company intends to finance, build and help operate networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, with the aim of connecting around one billion people to the web.
To help make the campaign viable, Google has been bringing together an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones using Android with low-power microprocessors. Instead of traditional infrastructure, the Google signal will be transmitted through high altitude platforms, ie airships.
The company also said the technology was "suitable for providing low-cost connectivity to rural communities with poor telecommunications infrastructure, and for expanding wireless broadband coverage in densely populated urban areas."
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