Google has been in the news for the past couple of weeks as the search engine giant has announced several new updates and apps during its I/O event. However this does not mean at all that Google has nothing new to offer its users during this year, as according to latest report of The Wall Street Journal, the Mountain View-based company is currently working on a new project that will enable the multinational corporation to set up its wireless networks in various developing countries across the world including Southeast Asian and sub-Saharan African regions. Therefore, Google is looking to team up with local companies in order to develop and set up its wireless networks, which reportedly use airwaves that are normally limited for TV. However, to do so first Google need to obtain approval from governments:
“Some of those efforts revolve around using certain airwaves reserved for TV broadcasts to create wireless networks, but only if government regulators allowed it, these people said. Google has long been involved in public trials to prove the technology—which operates at lower frequencies than some cell networks, allowing signals to be more easily transmitted through buildings and other obstacles and across longer distances—can work. And it has begun talking to regulators in countries such as South Africa and Kenya about changing current rules to allow such networks to be built en masse.”
The report suggests that in addition to this Google is “building an ecosystem of new microprocessors and low-cost smartphones powered by its Android mobile operating system to connect to the wireless networks,” but it did not provide any other specific details regarding the devices.
Apart from this, the report also indicates that Google X project takes advantage of “special balloons or blimps, known as high-altitude platforms, to transmit signals to an area of hundreds of square miles,” although it’s not clear whether the two projects are interrelated or not.
However, Google has already started trials on small scale at different locations and one of them is Cape Town, South Africa, where company is using as base station along with wireless access boxes in order broadcast signals to several miles distance, according to WSJ’s report.
Nevertheless, nothing can be said for sure at this point in time, as Google has declined to make any comments about this project, but it is expected that sooner or later more details regarding the plan will roll out.
Source: 9to5Google
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