Google launches giant balloon into air to provide internet to the ground with the speed of 3G arround the new zealand.
30 of superpressure balloons are launched from New Zealand, where they will drift around the world on a controlled path.
Connected equipment offer 3G speeds like 50 testers in the country.
Access will be intermittent, but over time the company hopes to build a fleet large enough to provide reliable connections to people in remote areas.
He said that the balloons could one day be diverted to the disaster areas to help relief efforts in situations where mass communication equipment was damaged.
But an expert warns that trying to simultaneously browse thousands of balloons to high altitude wind patterns around the world will be a difficult task to get right.
Read the full article on the BBC Tech news.
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