Loon balloons will take Internet to remote areas of Peruvian Amazon

Peru will become the first country in Latin America to receive Internet through this technology, benefiting the population in areas with difficult access in the Peruvian Amazon.

Internet penetration will be carried out thanks to an agreement with Internet For All Peru (IpT) and Loon, who will use the balloons to expand mobile internet access to Movistar customers, transmitting the signal through mobile operators directly to smartphones in the area with low population density.

Both companies handle extensive knowledge in the field, which shows that the results will provide great and satisfactory benefits to the Peruvian population, because the areas that have been favored have rural communities where the deployment of conventional telecommunications infrastructure has been limited.

Loon is a subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. For its part, IpT is an open access wholesale rural mobile infrastructure operator, created by Telefónica, Facebook, IDB Invest and CAF, which this time seeks to contribute to closing digital gaps in Peru.

This agreement between Loon, Telefónica del Perú and IpT marks an important milestone because after having initiated the first tests of this technology in 2014, great contributions were made to Peruvian society after attending it in 2018 before the devastating phenomenon of El Niño that harmed several towns in northern Peru, providing connectivity to an area of ​​40,000 km². The same happened at the beginning of 2019 bringing connectivity to the forest of Peru which was devastated by an earthquake with magnitude 8.0.

K.Villarroel

Source: tecno.americaeconomia