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Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project by PaulHoule on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:18AM (#13381944)
Oh yeah, Loon is going to be so much more feasible. Loon makes the spatial economics of providing internet so much worse since it has to cover the 3/4 of the world that is ocean plus all of the places that are deeply uninhabited.

To get fiber into rural places you just have to parallel the electric lines. Except there is something ritually unclean about wires and we can't do it.

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Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project by euyyn on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:40AM (#13383038)
Why would you need the balloons flying over the ocean? They can control their longitude.

Plenty of rural places in third-world countries without an electric grid too.

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Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project by trhway on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:24PM (#13385771)
>To get fiber into rural places you just have to parallel the electric lines.

you can run the Internet signal on the same electric wires.

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Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project by autotypo on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:48AM (#13383770)
Unattended wires will be sold as scrap.
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