High altitude balloons providing Internet access to those who don't have it?…

Reshared post from +Matt Cutts

Google has been experimenting with providing internet access via high-altitude (~80,000 feet) balloons. This could provide fast bandwidth to lots of parts of the world that don't have it. The latency would be much better than satellites, because the balloons are only ~15 miles up, while a satellite in geostationary orbit is 22,000+ miles up.

See +Steven Levy 's story for Wired below, or follow +Project Loon for more info!