Google will provide high speed internet access Sri Lankans. Network access will be made with balloons running over the Indian Ocean. It is reported by Yahoo News.

"The entire island of Sri Lanka in the south to the north will provide affordable high-speed Internet with the help of techniques Google Loon», - the minister said the country's high technology Mangala Samareveera (Mangala Samaraweera). Thus, Sri Lanka has become the first country in South Asia with a full internet coverage.

By balloons also join local Internet providers, increasing the speed and quality of their telecommunications services.

Preparing the balloons end by March 2016. They will be raised to a height twice the level of commercial aircraft flight.

Providing access to a network of Sri Lanka - part of the program Project Loon, in which Google gives Internet with balloons equipped with high-tech equipment that is powered by solar panels. At Google, claim that the project will provide access to the network, or the residents of the poorest regions of the hard earth. The speed of the Internet is the same as in the third generation mobile networks.

Test Test Project Loon held in 2013 in New Zealand. Google launched in the region Canterbury 30 balls which provided internet 50 volunteers from the local community.

Above innovative technologies connect private users to the Internet and running the social network Facebook in the project Internet.org. For this purpose, the company intends to use the UAV Aquila, project an image that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
presented
the public in May.

In Sri Lanka, there are more than 20 million people. Through the mobile network to the Internet out of 2.8 million users, while the wired access to the World Wide Web has only 606000 residents.

Source: 7city.org