Alphabet, Google's super-holding born in August combining innovative companies in the fields of new technologies and medicine is about to enter the test phase with its first project, Google Loon.
It is a series of probe balloons that travel at high altitudes creating a global internet transmission network.
The web giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radio mechanisms in 50 states of American soil and in Puerto Rico, attaching massive documentation. Alphabet is still hiding behind a "no comment" on the rumors leaked on the Business Insider website, which has come into possession of much of the documentation.
The Loon Project has the characteristics of a comic book spy story: it is the product of Google Also being studied beyond this network of 'internet hot air balloons' is the much more well-known project of a self-driving car. Both projects are now developed through Alphabet. The system can totally revolutionize the use of the Internet, replacing the current cable system with a 'home' or 'condominium' system based on a small antenna which transmits the signals to the nearest weather balloon: the latter retransmits it through the others up to the first provider.
Loon, already at an advanced stage, is also being tested in Asia with the collaboration of the 3 largest Indonesian telecommunication groups: the probe balloons will be used on the 4 most populous cities in the country, in which more than two thirds of citizens are deprived of access to the web.
