Before Project Loon can even attempt a chance at success Google is ready with another similar internet provider project and this time around they are reaching beyond the skies. Apparently Google is investing around 1 to 3 billion on internet satellites hoping to provide the web services to remote areas that are still out of reach.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the tech giant is preparing to launch a troop of satellites that would initially include 180. The recent acquisition of Titan Aerospace was also for the same purpose of making the two thirds of the worlds population accessible through the net. Dubbed Project Loon this one had huge balloons with required transmitters floating around in the stratosphere.
These advances by Google has spurred debates among technologists as to why a tech firm would be interested in spending such huge bucks on a project that might even write the ultimate doom in terms of funding.
Google though might be doing this for only two reasons and they might be to expand their user base or the gut feeling of providing better lives to those 4 billion souls that have no access to the internet at all.
Operating the two most visited sites in the world, Google and Youtube, 4 billion more potential users are sure to double up their current revenue. Having already taken a step in the budget smartphone industry Google might also be hoping that providing mobile internet will be far more profitable than to resort to wired sources.
Probably this was the reason why Loon was the premier choice, lesser investment with greater rewards. Satellites on the other hand a list of woes backing them that would make any firm think twice. One, building such high tech space material will cost a fortune and two there is a higher probability of failure given the umpteen failed trials in the field. But a glimmer of hope can be found with the latest entrants in satellite manufacturing such as Space X that provide affordable products with greater quality.
And of course access to the net is fruitful only with an equal amount of devices listening and this is were Mozilla and Motorola might pitch in. These two firms have already taken the low string smartphone range by storm and their soon to come subscriber deals can help Google taste success in its latest venture.
One billion is just a speck of what Google is actually worth and a motive such as this can do well with a better investment that is not gonna burn a hole in their already full pockets.