AT&T is helping to connect people to the Internet in Puerto Rico after the hurricane. Currently a lot of locations don't have high-speed Internet in the area at all.
Much of the High Speed Internet network infrastructure in Puerto Rico took damage from the storms. Project Loon is a Google experiment with balloons equipped to provide wireless Internet access from above. The balloons use antennas mobile users to connect ground stations to provide Internet in hard to get to places. Google decided to offer these balloons, to help Puerto Rico get back connected to the Internet after Hurricane Maria. Google didn't have much going on in Puerto Rico so they partnered with AT&T to get it up and running. AT&T sent almost 40 ships loaded with equipment and five planes to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands recently. Some of the islands have had no cell coverage and Internet service since the hurricane hit the islands earlier this year.
When T-Mobile heard that AT&T was partnering with Google’s Internet providing balloons to connect the hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico to the Internet T-Mobile announced that it is also going to be working with the Loon Project to help the storm ravaged islands. Now it is still an experimental project, but it is helping out. “Since turning on Project Loon service last week, we’ve delivered basic Internet connectivity to tens of thousands of people in Puerto Rico.” according to Google's spokesperson. The Internet-connecting balloons get launched in Nevada and have to travel all the way down to Puerto Rico to go into service.
No comments:
Post a Comment