Explainer: Could balloons power uncensored Internet in Cuba?


A file photo provided by Project Loon shows a stratospheric balloon taking off for Puerto Rico from a project site in Winnemucca, Nevada. For years, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, worked to perfect an Internet-balloon division service called Loon. It shut down that project in January 2021, saying it wasn't commercially viable. DeSantis has called on the Biden administration to greenlight a plan to transmit the Internet to people in Cuba via high-altitude balloons when their government has blocked access. — Project Loon via AP

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, called this week on the administration of US President Joe Biden to greenlight a plan to transmit the Internet to people in Cuba via high-altitude balloons when their government has blocked access.

Can Internet be delivered by balloon?

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