Tag: Loon
Google Loon Exit: Sky-high Expenditure, Regulatory Squabbles, and Poor Uptake Force Company Out
Project Loon was launched at the start of the past decade, 2011. The whole project’s business model was beam internet signals to underserved regions...
Alphabet Shuts Down Loon, Its Moonshot Internet Balloon Company
Loon, one of Alphabet's ventures to provide high speed internet is shutting down.
Loon was one bet among Alpahabet's other bets and will now be...
Telkom Kenya’s Loon Goes Official, Records 19 Mbps Down Speeds
Loon, or as popularly known Project Loon is finally official in Kenya.
Telkom Kenya and Alphabet started testing Project Loon more nearly two years ago.
The project, which...
Project Loon and Telkom Kenya 4G Project Sends Three More Balloons to Kenya
Project Loon was officially launched by President Kenyatta a couple of weeks ago. The announcement was motivated by the need to avail mobile internet...
Loon to Beam 4G Signals to Larger Central Kenya in the Next ‘Few Weeks’
Earlier today in an address by President Kenyatta, it emerged that Project Loon, the high-flying, internet-beaming balloon project by Telkom Kenya and Google (Alphabet)...
Google Loon and Telkom Kenya Get Approval to Rollout Commercial 4G Internet to Remote Areas
Kenya has signed an agreement with Google Loon which will provide internet access to Kenyans as they work from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
This...
Google Loon Signs Overflight Agreement with Uganda’s Government
Google Loon has signed an overflight agreement with Uganda as they work towards the provision of service in the region.
Loon Opens Ground Station in Nyeri as the Balloon Project with Telkom Kenya Nears Commercial Launch
Alphabet’s Project Loon started working with Telkom Kenya more than one year ago. The arrangement between the two corporations targets to offer 4G internet...
Telkom-Loon Partnership Makes Notable Milestone As Loon Sends a Single 1000km Connection Across 7 Balloons
We have covered a lot about Project Loon, Alphabet’s arm that has already set foot in Kenya in partnership with Telkom Kenya, with the...
Loon’s Commercial Proposition Takes Base Stations to the Sky
Project Loon, a formerly Google experimental project that delivers internet connectivity to off-coverage areas through the use of a balloon system has announced its first...
