Infrastructure cost is not the only problem Internet service providers face, but it is among the top reasons Internet access is not available to everyone across South Asia and Southeast Asia.
"In Jakarta, we can enjoy Internet speeds up to 10 Mbps, which makes Jakarta the city with the second-fastest Internet speeds in Southeast Asia, after Singapore,” said Indonesia Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara Rudiantara. “But our friends in Maluku and Papua can only enjoy 300 Kbps."
Google Project Loon might provide part of the answer to the infrastructure problem faced by an archipelago of over 17,000 islands.
Google and three mobile operators across Indonesia (Telkomsel, XL Axiata, and Indosat) will test the use of Project Loon as the backhaul mechanism. It appears Project Loon will use Long Term Evolution frequencies that can be used by standard LTE handsets, though it is not clear the phones will receive signals directly.
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