WASHINGTON: Facebook plans to start testing its internet-carrying solar-powered drones in 2015, with the ultimate aim of getting two-thirds of the global population online.
Mark Zuckerberg had unveiled Facebook's Connectivity Lab and its partnership with the Internet.org project in March this year.
The initiative seeks to use solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles to beam internet down to the two thirds of the global
population who are not yet connected,according to 'Gizmag'.
Speaking at the Social Good Summit in New York last week, engineering director at Facebook Connectivity Lab, Yael Maguire,
detailed the company's vision of internet-carrying drones, with plans to begin testing in 2015 in a US location which is yet to be
determined.
"In order for us to fly these planes —unmanned planes that have to fly for months, or perhaps years at a time — we actually have to fly above the weather, above all airspace,"Maguire told Mashable.
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Mark Zuckerberg had unveiled Facebook's Connectivity Lab and its partnership with the Internet.org project in March this year.
The initiative seeks to use solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles to beam internet down to the two thirds of the global
population who are not yet connected,according to 'Gizmag'.
Speaking at the Social Good Summit in New York last week, engineering director at Facebook Connectivity Lab, Yael Maguire,
detailed the company's vision of internet-carrying drones, with plans to begin testing in 2015 in a US location which is yet to be
determined.
"In order for us to fly these planes —unmanned planes that have to fly for months, or perhaps years at a time — we actually have to fly above the weather, above all airspace,"Maguire told Mashable.
Read more: http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/tech-news/Facebook-to-test-internet-beaming-drones-in-2015/articleshow/43794383.cms
