American companies use balloons to provide wireless services

The Wall Street Journal quoted people on Wednesday as saying that Google is currently considering cooperation with space data or acquiring the company. space data mainly uses balloons to provide wireless services.
Space Data Service targets areas that do not have Internet access, such as rural areas and highways. the company sends signals to the ground through air balloons, allowing trucks or farmers traveling through the area to receive wireless and Internet services. space Data currently sends 20 balloons every day, each of which covers a range of 40 mobile phone base stations.

The space data balloon is not an ordinary hot air balloon. the company launched a balloon with a flying height of 32 kilometers. Each balloon carries an electronic device of the size of a normal shoe box. This electronic device functions like a small cell phone signal tower, it can cover thousands of square miles below it.

It is reported that the cost of space data balloons is 50 US dollars, but the cost of carrying electronic devices is about 1500 US dollars. when the balloon is broken in the air, the parachute will bring the electronic devices carried on the balloon back to the ground.

So far, neither space data nor Google has commented on this.