Loon Web Video Narration
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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While many of us take the Internet for granted, large parts of the world are still unconnected in big towns and cities. Providing connectivity with cell towers is economical as there are lots of people there wanting to connect. But the further away from these towns and cities you go, the fewer people there are, until eventually, connectivity just stops. To bring the Internet to people in these areas, we need to look up way into the stratosphere. From here, we can provide connectivity across much larger areas, bringing the benefits of the Internet to more people. So how do we get there with balloons? Really big balloons Beginning their journey from one of our custom built balloon launchers are balloons, air filled with lighter than air gas and released up into the skies. Rising 20 kilometers into the stratosphere, loon balloons float twice as high as airplanes, well above weather and wildlife. To get to where they need to go, loon balloons sale the winds by moving up or down into different wind currents, traveling in different directions, joining other balloons in small teams over areas where connectivity is needed, Ground stations connected toe. Local Internet service providers send signals up to the balloons and then back down to the ground over large distances, allowing people to connect directly to the Internet with an LTTE mobile phone. When it is eventually time for a balloons to come down, we navigate them to remote areas and work with local air traffic control to manage their slow descent down to Earth where they're collected by our recovery teams. By repeating this process had scale, way hope to provide continued connectivity to users on the ground, bringing the Internet to more people in more places around the world.