[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Google Testing Blimp Broadband in Africa

[Joly MacFie]

Probably you can't do much more than sit and hope right now Edwin, but I am
sure it wouldn't do any harm to get in touch.

Contact appears to be Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, Public Policy Manager, Google
South Africa
 <fortune.sibanda at gmail.com>

j


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Edwin A. Opare <aeopare at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joly,
>
> What can we do help?
>
> Best,
>
> Edwin A. Opare
> ISOC Ghana
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> (fwd from ISOC Trustee Dave Farber)
>>
>>
>> Google Testing Blimp Broadband in Africa
>> Blimpband: Long Promised, Never Delivered
>> By Karl Bode
>> May 28 2013
>> <
>> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Testing-Blimp-Broadband-in-Africa-124389
>> >
>>
>> For years we've talked about the idea of "stratellites" -- or blimps
>> proposed for use primarily as communications vessels either in military
>> conflict, disaster zones, or in rural markets. One of the "leaders" (the
>> term is used loosely) in the field has been Sanswire Networks, whose
>> "blimpband" services have made hype-drenched headlines for years yet never
>> actually materialized. Now Google is breathing new life into the blimpband
>> market with the news that they're tinkering with blimp-based broadband" for
>> use in markets like Africa:
>>
>> Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across
>> Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps. The company is
>> intending to finance, build and help operate networks from sub-Saharan
>> Africa to Southeast Asia, with the aim of connecting around a billion
>> people to the web. To help enable the campaign, Google has been putting
>> together an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android on low-power
>> microprocessors. Rather than traditional infrastructure, Google's signal
>> will be carried by high-altitude platforms - balloons and blimps - that can
>> transmit to areas of hundreds of square kilometres.
>>
>> Like Microsoft, who also has an interest in Africa as an exploding mobile
>> market, Google has also been working on using White Space broadbandto
>> deliver connectivity to Africa.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
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