After successfully testing and delivering Internet service to remote places in Kenya using flying balloons, Alphabet's Loon on Thursday announced that it would deploy its system of balloons across Kenya so as to boost high-speed Internet access coverage to both rural and urban areas.
The technology which was developed by Alphabet's X lab is known as Project Loon. Loon is a subsidiary of Alphabet, the company which owns Google.
According to reports, Loon is to beam high-speed Internet access with Telkom Kenya starting next year. This will be the company's commercial first deal in Africa.
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This same technology was used by US telecom operators to provide connectivity to more than 250,000 people after the hurricane that struck Puerto Rico last year.
Loon's mission is to connect people everywhere by inventing and integrating audacious technologies,'said Alastair Westgarth, the chief executive of Loon.
Telkom Kenya comes behind market leader Safaricom and Bharti Airtel in Kenya. However, Telkom Kenya hopes the technology will help achieve full Internet coverage of its population.
"We will work very hard with Loon, to deliver the first commercial mobile service, as quickly as possible, using Loon's ballon-powered Internet in Africa," Chief executive of Telkom Kenya, Aldo Mareuse said.
The Loon service uses balloons which are powered by an on-board solar panel to provide 4G coverage to areas with lower population densities.
Project Loon researchers even say that it is possible to use machine learning to predict weather systems. This allows the firm to control where the balloons goes so as to focus on a particular region instead of traveling around the globe.
Kenya has a population of over 45 million people with telecom operators covering just the towns and cities while the vast part of rural Kenya are left out. This deal will definitely give Telkom Kenya an edge over the major operators.
After successfully testing and delivering Internet service to remote places in Kenya using flying balloons, Alphabet's Loon on Thursday announced that it would deploy its system of balloons across Kenya so as to boost high-speed Internet access coverage to both rural and urban areas.
The technology which was developed by Alphabet's X lab is known as Project Loon. Loon is a subsidiary of Alphabet, the company which owns Google.
According to reports, Loon is to beam high-speed Internet access with Telkom Kenya starting next year. This will be the company's commercial first deal in Africa.
Also Read: Kenya Airtel free unlimited internet trick on XP Psiphon and Http injector
This same technology was used by US telecom operators to provide connectivity to more than 250,000 people after the hurricane that struck Puerto Rico last year.
Loon's mission is to connect people everywhere by inventing and integrating audacious technologies,'said Alastair Westgarth, the chief executive of Loon.
Telkom Kenya comes behind market leader Safaricom and Bharti Airtel in Kenya. However, Telkom Kenya hopes the technology will help achieve full Internet coverage of its population.
"We will work very hard with Loon, to deliver the first commercial mobile service, as quickly as possible, using Loon's ballon-powered Internet in Africa," Chief executive of Telkom Kenya, Aldo Mareuse said.
The Loon service uses balloons which are powered by an on-board solar panel to provide 4G coverage to areas with lower population densities.
Project Loon researchers even say that it is possible to use machine learning to predict weather systems. This allows the firm to control where the balloons goes so as to focus on a particular region instead of traveling around the globe.
Kenya has a population of over 45 million people with telecom operators covering just the towns and cities while the vast part of rural Kenya are left out. This deal will definitely give Telkom Kenya an edge over the major operators.
Due to the increased rate of pregnancy among teens in the country, Kenya's National Examination Council (KNEC) boss Prof. George Magoha wants the country to block all p0rn sites in the country.
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According to the KNEC boss, p0rn websites were to be blamed for the rapid increase in cases of pregnancy occurring during the country's national exams.
"Getting pregnant when you are not ready is primitive and a sign of adab decadence and negligence from parents," CitizenTV quoted the KNEC chief.
The cases of teenage pregnancies among students increased across the country during the national exams, and the professor says the masalah was due to the students easy access to p0rn sites.
The professor went on to accuse leaders in the country for failing to talk to girls about family planning, saying it was high time health reproductive lessons were introduced in schools to tackle the crises.
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CitizenTV said the KNEC chief accused their leaders of not helping the menace, whom according to him, cheered on for people to 'multiple and fill the earth.'
However, some people in the country don't totally agree with the KNEC Chief. Here's one response from a Twitter user from Kenya: The P0rn industry is one of the fastest growing industry in the world. The demand for P0rn videos are so much that those sites receives more Internet traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined. In 2015 alone, P0rnHub claimed their site streamed 75GB of data a second!
P0rnHub has even gone a step further by creating a free VPN service with unlimited bandwidth to help users bypass regional restrictions and other forms of censorships.
