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Google’s balloon-powered Internet Project Loon to come to India by 2016

[caption id="attachment_129252" align="aligncenter" width="550"] This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license by Doug Coldwell using Flickr bot.[/caption] Google is looking to bring Project Loon, its balloon powered-Internet service, to India and is working with the government for the same, reports the Times of India. Speaking to the publication, Mohammad Gawdat, VP of business Innovation at Google X, said that the technology giant will be looking at commercial format for the project by 2016 which will cover every inch of the Earth and that the company is working closely with governments across the world including India. Project Loon is a network of balloons which float at about 20 kilometres above in the stratosphere which will help in providing Internet access to the most remote corners of the world. Google has teamed up with telecommunications companies to share cellular spectrum which enables people to connect to the balloon network directly from their phones and other LTE-enabled devices. The signal is then passed across the balloon network and back down to the global Internet on Earth. Google had partnered with Australia's largest telco Telstra to run a pilot of the project with 20 balloons on a part of its 2.6GhZ spectrum. It's interesting to note that Vinton Cerf, Google's chief evangelist and widely considered as one of the fathers of the Internet, held discussions earlier last month with communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on ways to increase Internet penetration in the country as part of the government's Digital India programme. Our Take: Telecom…

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