Google's balloon project that promised Kenyans affordable internet shuts down
Daniel Adeyemi Share this article A year after Google’s Moonshot Factory celebrated its first decade, it’s shutting down one of its projects: Loon. Launched in 2013, the project Loon is a cost-effective solution to the difficult challenge of bringing internet access to people in underserved remote areas. But two years after making it a separate division, Google has accepted that it can’t find a sustainable business model. Loon launch in Kenya Last year, Loon launched a pilot project in Kenya, years behind schedule after regulatory delays. Initially, some technology experts said the ba...
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