Indian government seems to be in a rush to launch Google's Project Loon in India. First, much to our amazement IT & Telecom Minister gave a nod for the project when Google CEO Sunder Pichai met him last year. The government has asked Google to select a telecom operator as partner for testing the balloon-based internet
technology, Loon Project, in the country.
Though Google has not confirmed the news yet, but according to an official source, "Google wants to test the Loon Project in expensive and scarce spectrum bands. It has been asked to partner with any telecom operator that can meet its requirement and then approach the government for testing Loon."
BSNL could be Google's first choice. The reason why we say so is because last December, after giving permissions toGoogle for launching a pilot of the Project Loon, IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had had also welcomed Google's proposal to partner BSNL for the pilot project. "We shall be expediting that. I have directed Secretary Rakesh Garg to coordinate with the Defense and security agencies to expedite this process," he had said then.
One must note, for Project Loon, Google will launch a network of balloons in the country to connect people in rural and remote areas in order to fill coverage gaps as well as to bring people back online after disasters.
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technology, Loon Project, in the country.
Though Google has not confirmed the news yet, but according to an official source, "Google wants to test the Loon Project in expensive and scarce spectrum bands. It has been asked to partner with any telecom operator that can meet its requirement and then approach the government for testing Loon."
BSNL could be Google's first choice. The reason why we say so is because last December, after giving permissions toGoogle for launching a pilot of the Project Loon, IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had had also welcomed Google's proposal to partner BSNL for the pilot project. "We shall be expediting that. I have directed Secretary Rakesh Garg to coordinate with the Defense and security agencies to expedite this process," he had said then.
One must note, for Project Loon, Google will launch a network of balloons in the country to connect people in rural and remote areas in order to fill coverage gaps as well as to bring people back online after disasters.
Dear readers, please share your views and opinions about these new attractive offers by BSNL via comments with us.
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