Google’s Project Loon Internet Service Could Arrive by Next Year | Re/code

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"A year after Project Loon became public, its leaders told Wired that Google should be able to provide LTE data connections “in one or several countries” within the next year.

The company hopes to grow a fleet of 300 to 400 balloons that can continuously circle the earth at an altitude twice as high as commercial planes, and stay up for 100 or more days. Already, the balloons have traveled more than a million and a half kilometers, and circled the world in as little as 22 days, which is a world record.

And they are delivering Internet speeds of 22 MB per second to ground antennae and 5 MB per second to phones."

Google’s Project Loon Internet Service Could Arrive by Next Year | Re/code