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Alphabet-owned Loon and Peru-based rural mobile infrastructure operator Internet Para Todos Peru (IpT) have signed a deal that will see high-altitude balloons be used to expand mobile internet access ...

Internet access in Kenya can now be accessed via high-flying balloons. Flying above planes, into the stratosphere, the balloons are the product of Loon, a company that has been putting years into this ...

But the infrastructure for internet service isn't in place everywhere, making truly universal access impossible at the moment ...

It’s been a big week for Loon. Just eight days ago, it was one of Alphabet’s moonshot projects, launching antennas attached to giant balloons into the stratosphere to beam internet down to Earth. Now ...

In a new test, Loon, spun out of Google’s parent company, says it sent a signal 1,000 kilometers. That’s its farthest yet. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and ...