Google has been working on bringing Wi-Fi to hard-to-reach areas by sending giant floating balloons into the air. And the latest news is that Sri Lanka is investigating using Google’s balloons to cover the country with internet access. Currently, 1 in 5 residents in Sri Lanka have internet access and bringing internet to the whole country would be costly and time-consuming, because it involves laying cables everywhere. If Google’s balloons work, they would float 12 miles above the Earth, and beam down connections to every town and village in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is thinking about trying Google’s balloons to get country-wide internet coverage
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