GOOGLE has officially Project Loon, access to the internet via balloons

Today Google has officially Project Loon, experimental technology to access the internet through the balloons . 

A project of the reach and the revolutionary potential: the idea of an O-ring balloons , flying around the world taking advantage of the stratospheric winds, are able to provide reliable access to the internet and convenient in rural, remote and underserved of the Earth, or be of assistance after natural disasters that have hit the communications infrastructure.

There are many factors that the surface of the earth constitute an obstacle to the internet in addition to that cost. Today, for example, in the majority of countries in the Southern Hemisphere the cost of a connection to the internet is higher than a person gains in a month. So today Google has access to the internet via balloons.

We think it is actually possible to build a ring of balloons flying around the globe taking advantage of the stratospheric winds and provide internet access to the territories below. We're really just getting started, but we have built a system that uses balloons blown by the wind to a height twice that used by commercial aircraft, to provide internet access to the ground at a speed similar to that of existing 3G networks, or even faster.
So we hope that the balloons can become an option for connecting rural areas, remote or under-served areas and to help make communications possible in the event of natural disasters. The idea may seem a bit 'crazy - this is one of the reasons we called the project Loon  - but the scientific foundations are solid.
The balloons, with their natural elegance, present some challenges. Many projects have examined the possibility of using high altitude platforms to provide internet access in the fixed areas of the ground, but try to stay still in one place requires a very expensive and complex. For this reason, the idea that we have pursued plans to leave the balloons to float in the winds. All we had to do was figure out how to control their movement in the sky. Now we have found a way to accomplish this, using only the wind and solar energy: we can move the balls up and down to take the wind currents in which we want traveling. This solution led us to a new problem: how to manage a fleet of balloons that sail around the world so that each ball is in the area where we want sail right time. We are solving this problem with some complex algorithms and a lot of computing power.
At this point we need a little 'help: This experiment will require much more than just our team. This week we launched a pilot project in the Canterbury region in New Zealand with 50 'experimenters' who will try to connect to our balloons. This is the first time that we have launched so many balls (in fact, 30 this week) and we are trying to connect so many receivers on the ground, we will learn much to improve our technology and the design of our balloons.
In the future we would like to create pilot projects in other countries that are at the same latitude of New Zealand.

 We also want to find partners for the next phase of our project, we look forward to receiving feedback and ideas from people who have been working for well longer than we have on the immense problem of providing Internet access in rural and remote areas . Imagine that one day you can use your mobile phone with your service provider to connect the balloons and have the connection in areas where there's just today.

This technology is still at a highly experimental and there is still a long way to go but it is certainly interesting and promising. We can monitor the progress of Project Loon following the Google+ page .