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IPFS News Link • Puerto Rico

Project Loon delivering emergency internet and phone access to 100,000 in Puerto Rico...

• nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

This is the first time we have used our new machine learning powered algorithms to keep balloons clustered over Puerto Rico, so we're still learning how best to do this. As we get more familiar with the constantly shifting winds in this region, we hope to keep the balloons over areas where connectivity is needed for as long as possible.

Last month, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane and caused significant damage to the island's connectivity infrastructure.

Project Loon never deployed connectivity from scratch at such a rapid pace, and we're grateful for the support of AT&T, T-Mobile and the many other partners and organizations that have made this possible.

Google Loon launches and maintain a fleet of balloons to provide Internet coverage to users on the ground, with our Autolaunchers capable of safely and consistently launching a new balloon every 30 minutes.


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