{"id":7864,"date":"2016-01-16T06:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2016-01-16T06:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T06:35:05","slug":"google-project-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/google-project-loon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Project Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently Google has announce to launch \u201cProject Loon\u201d for Internet services in India it was launched by Google as a pilot project in which country?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) Australia<br \/>\n(b) New Zealand<br \/>\n(c) Russia<br \/>\n(d) Brazil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 16 December 2015, Speaking at the \u201cGoogle for India\u201d event, the company&#8217;s CEO Sundar Pichai announced to launch pilot project of the &#8220;Project Loon\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Project Loon began with a pilot test in June 2013 in New Zealand\u2019s South Island and in second phase it was expanded to New Zealand, California (the US) and Brazil.<\/li>\n<li>It is planned to launch in Indonesia and Srilanka before India by the Google.<\/li>\n<li>In India Google has offered partnership to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for this project.<\/li>\n<li>The Government of India in December 2015, allowed for the trial phase of this project.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier Department of communications and IT had expressed his doubts that Google&#8217;s Project Loon will interfere with cellular transmissions of mobile operators in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project Loon\u00a0<\/strong>is a\u00a0research and development\u00a0project being developed by\u00a0Google X\u00a0with the mission of providing\u00a0Internet access\u00a0to rural\u00a0and remote areas.<\/li>\n<li>Loon\u2019s balloon envelopes are made from sheets of polyethylene plastic, and they measure fifteen meters wide by twelve meters tall when fully inflated Helium-filled balloons travel approximately 20 km above the Earth\u2019s surface in the stratosphere.<\/li>\n<li>Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area of about 40 km in diameter using a wireless communications technology called 4G(LTE)<\/li>\n<li>It may be noted that in terms of internet usages India ranks second in the world after China.<\/li>\n<li>Through this project, Google in October 2015 announced to providing free WiFi to 400 railway stations of India using Rail wire network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/chennai-floods-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-pitches-project-loon-for-connectivity\/article7997667.ece\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/chennai-floods-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-pitches-project-loon-for-connectivity\/article7997667.ece<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/tech\/tech-news\/Google-CEO-Sundar-Pichai-We-will-bring-Project-Loon-to-India-soon\/articleshow\/50203190.cms\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/tech\/tech-news\/Google-CEO-Sundar-Pichai-We-will-bring-Project-Loon-to-India-soon\/articleshow\/50203190.cms<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/loon\/how\/\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/loon\/how\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/loon\/how\/\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/loon\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently Google has announce to launch \u201cProject Loon\u201d for Internet services in India it was launched by Google as a pilot project in which country? (a) Australia (b) New Zealand (c) Russia (d) Brazil Ans (b) Related facts: On 16 December 2015, Speaking at the \u201cGoogle for India\u201d event, the company&#8217;s CEO Sundar Pichai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143,546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}