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Alphabet will 'wind down' Loon's internet-broadcasting balloons
Google’s parent company Alphabet is pulling the plug on Loon's internet-broadcasting balloons, apparently because it couldn’t make the whole thing commercially viable. (finance.yahoo.com) More...
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Not very surprising... High Latency at best!
Would be better to make use of the balloons as temp infrastructure; i.e. use the properties of the long duration of a balloon to maintain flight with some drone (automated?) like ability to “circle” a known location (power via solar/battery/other source) to provide (usually) temporary coverage. Nothing like having a portable repeater or base station at height to cover an area vs. having a low level tower; weather will always be an issue.
It’s called a satellite, spend some money Google
