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While we’ve been hearing about Google’s balloons and Facebook’s drones being tested to beam Internet from the skies, a new report points out that Google is all set to bring wireless internet into your homes.
By tech2 News Staff / 18 Apr 2016 , 12:55
In an interview with, Alphabet’s Sr. Vice President Craig Barrat who oversees Fiber projects said that the company is now working on fixed wireless Internet for places where Fiber is too expensive. He further added that the company is currently experimenting with different wireless technologies.
“They鈥檙e not the only ones. Aereo founder Chet Kanojia says he wants to develop a similar system at his new company, Starry, and has promised to start testing it in Boston this summer. And yesterday Facebook announced an initiative to experiment with wireless Internet. But Facebook says it doesn鈥檛 want to build or operate the wireless networks itself. Alphabet does,” the report points out.
Barratt joined Google in 2013 and was soon seen heading the Access division. He is reportedly among the聽small group of recent Google hires who are聽considered among聽Alphabet聽CEO Larry Page鈥檚 trusted inner circle.
It was just recently that聽reports around 聽the Google balloon, which is a part of the company鈥檚 high-speed Internet servicein a Sri Lankan tea plantation during its maiden test flight. Facebook has聽also completed building its first full-scale 聽solar-powered drone, Aquila, that aims at providing聽Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
Tags: Google, Google Fiber, Google Internet, Google Internet homes, Google Wireless Internet, Wireless Internet