Google abandons the hot-air balloon project

Internet giants have explored how to provide better Internet services many years ago. For these giants, they cannot continue to develop new customers without the Internet.

Especially in remote areas with large areas and sparsely populated areas and economically underdeveloped areas, the cost of laying network equipment on the ground is too high and consumers may not be able to afford it.

So Google previously tried to provide Internet connection to the ground through hot-air balloons. After the hot air balloons fly to the stratosphere, they can be relatively more stable and then provide wireless networks.

But after years of research and testing, Google believes that the hot-air balloon Internet cannot be commercialized, and eventually, Google will abandon the project and continue to research other alternative technologies.

Providing Internet connection through a hot air balloon is actually a feasible technical solution, but a feasible technical solution does not mean that it can be commercialized on a large scale.

There are many reasons why large-scale commercialization cannot be carried out. The main reason is that the reliability of hot air balloons in the stratosphere is not enough to carry out large-scale networking.

Google originally planned to launch multiple hot air balloons and then network with each other, which can improve network stability and provide Internet connections to a larger area on the ground.

But for hot air balloons, the stratospheric environment is still very harsh and requires precise control of the position of the hot air balloon, which is far more difficult than imagined.

In the end, Google decided that the technology could not be commercialized on a large scale and therefore gave up. Next, Google will continue to work on other feasible Internet plans.

Via: economictimes