Google Balloons Take Flight In Vast Remote Broadband Launch

Google X sees itself as firmly on target with a plan to launch high altitude Internet-transmitting balloons across the southern hemisphere, as it aims to provide wireless coverage to billions of people in remote areas. Google has said that by next year it aims to have a semi-permanent ring around the world to provide coverage to pilot testers in rural areas in places such as southern Africa, South America, Australasia and the most southerly parts of Asia.