Tag: Project Loon
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...
CS Mucheru Wants Smartphone Prices Lowered
The Cabinet Secretary for ICT Joe Mucheru has tasked the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to develop ways that will see Kenyans buy and...
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...
First Balloon for Telkom Kenya’s Internet-Beaming Loon Project Arrives in Kenya
A couple of days ago, President Kenyatta announced that Project Loon was going to start operations after securing approvals from the Communications Authority of...
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)...
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 Kenya to Launch Project Loon by June as it Commits KES 1 Billion to 3/4G Expansion
Telkom Kenya has announced a KES 1 billion expansion plan that will see further improvements on 3G and 4G coverage. The budget is also...
Communications Authority Approves Telkom Kenya and Loon’s Internet-Beaming Balloon Project
Google’s internet-beaming project dubbed Loon entered the Kenyan market a couple of months ago. The service, which targets to avail internet access to remote...
Telkom Named Title Sponsor for 2018 Connected Kenya Awards Ceremony
The 2018 Connected Kenya Summit was officially launched today by Mr. Joe Mucheru, the CS for ICT. During the early morning event at Nairobi’s...
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...
[UPDATED] Telkom Kenya’s Arrangement with Internet-Beaming Balloons Maybe Replicated in Uganda
UPDATE: Loon does not explicitly say it will launch its balloons in Uganda. Rather, the company met with Uganda's government officials for preliminary talks, which is...
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...
Telkom Kenya to Finally Use Google Balloons to Increase 4G Coverage
In August 2017, we covered Alphabet’s ‘Wi-Fi for the World’ Project dubbed Loon. At that time, 10 balloons were deployed in Nakuru, Nyeri, Nanyuki,...
Google Seeking Telco Partners for Full Project Loon Roll-Out in Kenya
X, a research and development company mothered by Google and prides itself of pioneering internet balloons famously known as Project Loon is seeking partnership...
Google’s ‘Wi-Fi for the World’ Loon Project Launches in Kenya
Google’s Project Loon that purposes to get everyone connected to the internet has started its pilot tests in Kenya.
Project Loon was conceptualized more than...
Google has Filed Paperwork for 2 Drones that will Provide Internet Connectivity
According to Internet Live Stats, there are around 3.2 billion Internet users out of the current world population of 7.3 billion. This means that...
Google Signs Up Sri-Lanka For First Project Loon Launch
In 2013, Google launched the Project Loon, an initiative aimed at bringing internet to majority of the world's population currently not connected. Project Loon...
