Google will use balloons to transmit Internet signals in the Southern Hemisphere. Google will use balloons to transmit Internet signals in the southern hemisphere.

Xinhua News Agency, San Francisco, September 24 (reporter Ma daN)-Google Inc. of the United States said the "Google balloon" intended to popularize the Internet to underdeveloped areas will form a circle around the southern hemisphere within a year, send wireless Internet signals to the ground.

He also said that "Google balloon" will send LTE (long-term evolution technology) wireless Internet signals, and its data transmission speed for fixed antennas is 22 Gb/s, the transmission speed of the mobile phone is 5 Gb/s per second. Astro tler, head of Google's "x lab", said at a technology conference recently that Google is expected to have enough balloons in the southern hemisphere to form a ring that can be stuck in the air for a long time by next year.

In last June, Google announced its "Google balloon" program to send a balloon equipped with a communication device to the atmosphere of the 20 km from the Earth's surface, so that the balloon can go around the Earth, transmits Internet access signals to the ground. Since then, Google has been experimenting with the program in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.

Popularizing the Internet from the air is another research and development project of Internet giant Facebook, which is studying how to transmit Internet access signals to underdeveloped areas through technical means such as drones, satellites, and laser beams. The company's "connection lab" Engineering director yail Maguire told the media that he hopes to test drones to send Internet signals in the United States next year. (End)

Google will use balloons to transmit Internet signals in the Southern Hemisphere. Google will use balloons to transmit Internet signals in the southern hemisphere.