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Kenya to use Alphabet's balloons for rural internet

Joe Mucheru the Cabinet Secretary ICT

The government will use Alphabet Inc’s system of balloons to beam high-speed Internet access in hopes of connecting more of its rural population to the web, its ICT Cabinet Secretary said.

Known as Project Loon, the technology was developed by Alphabet’s X, the company’s innovation lab. It was used by U.S. telecom operators to provide connectivity to more than 250,000 people in Puerto Rico after a hurricane last year.

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