2015年10月28日 星期三

Bringing the Web inside attain of one hundred million Indonesians

Beginning subsequent yr, the highest three cellular community operators in Indonesia will start testing

From left to proper: Ririek Adriansyah, CEO of Telkomsel; Dian Siswarini, CEO of XL Axiata; Alexander Rusli, Indosat CEO; Mike Cassidy, VP, Loon; Sergey Brin, President, Alphabet Inc

In Indonesia in the present day, solely about 1 out of each three individuals are related to the online, and most of their connections are painfully sluggish. Many individuals reside in areas with out present Web infrastructure; on an archipelago of over 17,000 islands, with mountains and jungles, it is troublesome to run fiber optic cable or set up cell phone towers. That is the place Loon is available in. Loon balloons act like floating cellphone towers within the sky. Flying on the winds at altitudes twice as excessive as business planes, every one beams a connection right down to the bottom; as one balloon drifts out of vary, one other strikes in to take its place. We hope this might assist native operators prolong the protection of their present networks, and attain additional into rural and distant areas.

Undertaking Loon balloons journey roughly 20 km above the Earth’s floor within the stratosphere. Winds within the stratosphere are stratified, and every layer of wind varies in velocity and path. By shifting with the wind, the balloons might be organized to type one giant communications community.

These checks with Indosat, Telkomsel, and XL Axiata are an necessary step towards bringing all of Indonesia on-line, and a key milestone for the Loon group as we proceed to check, study and increase the challenge.

In fact, to make the Web not simply accessible however helpful, there’s extra to do, and we now have all kinds of efforts underway in Indonesia and elsewhere to assist obtain that objective. For instance, Android One telephones are serving to to make reasonably priced excessive-high quality smartphones extra accessible

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