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Alphabet Loon Company has launched its first large-scale balloon-based Internet service in collaboration with Telecom Kenya.

Alphabet's Lun has launched its first large-scale balloon-based Internet service. This is the first commercial work in progress of this project which has been underway for a long time. Kenya is the first country to receive this service, and Alphabet has made this possible with Telkom Kenya. Balloon-based service has started providing Internet in an area of ​​more than 50,000 square kilometers in western and central Kenya. Additionally, it is also being planned to expand its reach to Mozambique's districts.

This large-scale balloon-based Internet project of Loon aims to spread across the globe to provide Internet connectivity in areas that are currently "Internet-less spaces", by Alunair Westgarth, CEO of Loon (formerly Project Loon) Describes This is the first non-emergency use of the Loon service to provide large-scale connectivity deployed in Kenya. It is also the first balloon-powered Internet service in Africa. "Balloons" are sent to the stratosphere and use advanced machine-learning algorithms to move and re-establish themselves and provide Internet coverage to areas below them.

While testing the project, the Loon team noted a download speed of 18.9–20.1 Mbps, an upload speed of 4.74–5.2 Mpbs, and a latency of 19ms. Then, the team tested the service with several services such as voice calls and video calls, along with YouTube, email, WhatsApp, web browsing, and more.

Loon's initial plan with a balloon-based internet service covers 50,000 square kilometers of territory in Kenya, including Iten, Bingo, Eldoret, Kakamega, Kisumu, Nakuru, Kisii, Kericho, Bomet, and Baroque. For this, it would use 35 or more different flying vehicles or "balloons" that would be in constant motion over East Africa

Back in May last year, this technology was used to provide LTE connectivity in Peru when it struck an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude. And, Lune also planned to expand the project on the Cabo Delgado and Mozambique's Niasa provinces.