Project Loon Heads Into Carrier Testing

Google’s “moonshot” to deliver Internet to remote parts of the world using high-flying balloons has survived a brutal development phase, and will enter testing with carriers in Indonesia and elsewhere in 2016.

Alphabet is in talks with carriers around the world, said Astro Teller, head of Alphabet’s X unit, adding that the prospect is very real that a further five billion people will have Internet access within five to 10 years. “It will change the world in ways we cannot possibly imagine,” he said.