Being a country with irregular terrain, there are many areas in which installing internet infrastructure would be very difficult which makes project Loon an excellent idea. Loon balloons act like floating cell phone towers in the sky. Flying on the winds at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, each one beams a connection down to the ground; as one balloon drifts out of range, another moves in to take its place. We hope this could help local operators extend the coverage of their existing networks, and reach further into rural and remote areas. Aside from project Loon, Google also has the Android One project that wants to put an Android handset in the hands of every one in the third world countries. Recently the Android One project came as far as Nigeria with the Infinix Hot 2 smartphone at only $80. However Google isn’t the only one trying to get the world connected. Facebook is trying to do something similar with it’s Internet.org project. On whether they are actually helping or trying get more eyeballs for ads is a question that remains to be answered.
