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January 25, 2021 Loon, Google parent Alphabet’s ambitious project to provide internet access to underserved areas through balloons carrying radio equipment, has been shuttered, the company announced in a blog post on January 22nd. Astro Teller, who heads Moonshots at X, the Alphabet subsidiary in charge of such emerging technology, said: Sadly, despite the team’s groundbreaking technical achievements over the last 9 years — doing many things previously thought impossible, like precisely navigating balloons in the stratosphere, creating a mesh network in the sky, or developing balloons...

Google X director Astro Teller said Loon had suffered a ‘longer and riskier’ path to viability than planned.

Project Loon is to be scrapped. The nine year-old Google project to beam internet from balloons is being closed down in the face of little interest from go

Alphabet has announced that it is shutting down its balloon-powered mobile Internet service, Loon in Kenya.  The project was launched in Kenya in 2018 in partnership with Telkom Kenya and sought to enable internet access to remote areas where setting up the traditional infrastructure is difficult or economically unviable. By last year, the project had however not kicked off over regulatory issues. ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru cited the laggard nature of Kenya’s bureaucracy process as the major hindrance. The ambitious project, however, went live in July last year. The project was give...

Alphabet, parent company of Google says its internet connectivity company Loon is not profitable and announced the closure of the firm.