Google's 'Project Loon' envisages a ring of balloons circling the globe at about 20 km and transmitting broadband to the 4.7 billion people who don't have it.
Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates has reportedly slammed Google’s broadband through helium balloon project and said that it won’t solve more pressing problems of the poor.
Google’s ‘Project Loon’ envisages a ring of balloons circling the globe at about 20 km and transmitting broadband to the 4.7 billion people who don't have it.
However, Gates said that when people are dying of malaria, the helium balloon won’t be of much help, Stuff.co.nz reports.
He further said that expanding internet to poor countries won’t solve other important and pressing issues adding that Google started out with broad humanitarian aims but then it ‘shut it all down’.
The report added him saying that Google is now simply doing its core thing but doing just that will not help uplift the poor.
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