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Sri Lanka to start Google Project Loon balloon trials this month
Feb 01, 2016 13:18 PM GMT+0530 | 0 Comment(s)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has signed a one-year deal with Google to start flight trials of Project Loon, a research and development project of the Internet giant aimed at providing broadband access to remote areas using high-altitude balloons.
“Increasing Internet access will give a fillip to economic growth,” Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure Harin Fernando said.
Equipment for the project has already arrived and Google expects to start trials later this month using Ratnalana airport for landing tests, he told a news conference.
Google has said Project Loon using balloons placed in the stratosphere to create an aerial wireless network with high speeds as fast as 4G will enable Internet access that’s faster, easier and cheaper.
Sri Lanka’s government will not have to invest any money in the project and its contribution will be to provide spectrum for which it will get a 25 percent stake in a company to be set up with Google, Fernando said.
“The government will retain the rights to spectrum because spectrum will be given by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission.”
Sri Lanka’s top telecos have been offered a 10 percent shareholding of the company, Fernando said.
He said they had held talks with local telcos and all except one were supporting the Loon project.
Fernando said only 26 percent of Sri Lankans use the internet and that studies have shown giving greater access is one of the easiest ways to increase economic growth.
A 10 percent increase in the proportion of a country’s population that’s connected adds 1.2 – 1.3 percentage points to economic growth, he said.
Sri Lanka to start Google Project Loon balloon trials this month
Feb 01, 2016 13:18 PM GMT+0530 | 0 Comment(s)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has signed a one-year deal with Google to start flight trials of Project Loon, a research and development project of the Internet giant aimed at providing broadband access to remote areas using high-altitude balloons.
“Increasing Internet access will give a fillip to economic growth,” Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure Harin Fernando said.
Equipment for the project has already arrived and Google expects to start trials later this month using Ratnalana airport for landing tests, he told a news conference.
Google has said Project Loon using balloons placed in the stratosphere to create an aerial wireless network with high speeds as fast as 4G will enable Internet access that’s faster, easier and cheaper.
Sri Lanka’s government will not have to invest any money in the project and its contribution will be to provide spectrum for which it will get a 25 percent stake in a company to be set up with Google, Fernando said.
“The government will retain the rights to spectrum because spectrum will be given by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission.”
Sri Lanka’s top telecos have been offered a 10 percent shareholding of the company, Fernando said.
He said they had held talks with local telcos and all except one were supporting the Loon project.
Fernando said only 26 percent of Sri Lankans use the internet and that studies have shown giving greater access is one of the easiest ways to increase economic growth.
A 10 percent increase in the proportion of a country’s population that’s connected adds 1.2 – 1.3 percentage points to economic growth, he said.
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Sri Lanka's government announced Monday it would take a 25 percent stake in a joint venture with Google designed to deliver a high-speed Internet service powered by balloons and that tests would begin this month.
Telecommunications Minister Harin Fernando said Google has taken delivery in Sri Lanka of the giant helium-filled balloons and other equipment needed to carry out tests across the island.
"The tests will start later this month at Ratmalana (a suburb of the capital Colombo) and could last up to a year," Fernando told reporters.
"The government of Sri Lanka will have a 25 percent stake in the (joint-venture) company in return for the spectrum that will be allocated for the project," the minister added in Colombo.
Fernando said there would be no other capital investment by Sri Lanka, but 10 percent of the joint venture would be offered to existing telephone service providers in the island.
The minister said most of the Internet service providers on the island were in favour of what is known as Google's "Project Loon" that will extend their coverage and offer cheaper rates for data services.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-02-sri-lanka-stake-google-balloon.html#jCp
Telecommunications Minister Harin Fernando said Google has taken delivery in Sri Lanka of the giant helium-filled balloons and other equipment needed to carry out tests across the island.
"The tests will start later this month at Ratmalana (a suburb of the capital Colombo) and could last up to a year," Fernando told reporters.
"The government of Sri Lanka will have a 25 percent stake in the (joint-venture) company in return for the spectrum that will be allocated for the project," the minister added in Colombo.
Fernando said there would be no other capital investment by Sri Lanka, but 10 percent of the joint venture would be offered to existing telephone service providers in the island.
The minister said most of the Internet service providers on the island were in favour of what is known as Google's "Project Loon" that will extend their coverage and offer cheaper rates for data services.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-02-sri-lanka-stake-google-balloon.html#jCp
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