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Project Loon cleared to assist restore wireless in Puerto RICO - My Page

Project Loon — the balloon delivered net project that started life as a part of Google and currently calls Alphabet’s X “innovation lab” home — has moved one step nearer to becoming a part of the relief efforts in Puerto RICO. The FCC has issued an “experimental license” for it to provide emergency cellular LTE service. during a statement, an X spokesperson explained that the next step is to integrate with a telco partner’s network, that it’s “making solid progress on.”
On September twenty ninth the X team same it was looking into ways to assist Puerto RICO with Project Loon, similar to the approach it helped give service in Peru after extreme rains and flooding struck the state in March. However, Loon had already been testing with Telefonica in Peru, that sped up the process.

In a report issued yesterday (PDF), the FCC said 83 % of cell sites in Puerto RICO are still out of service, along with 57 % within the us Virgin Islands and 100% in St. John. It also took the step of creating its hurricane Recovery Task Force that will work on restoring services to the islands.





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