That said Sundar Pichai, head of the Android and Chrome departments at Google, Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy should be replaced and send mobile towers an internet signal to Earth.
The project stems from the acquisition of Titan Aerospace by Google. That company said the acquisition that the aircraft can offer a maximum internet speed of 1 Gbps (125 Megabyte per second).
The drones need a large amount of solar panels and therefore are about fifty feet wide. Google may want to take off the drones from a big Airport Metro Station that hires recently NASA.
Balloons
Google wants the Titan drones to collaborate with the web balloons that are part of Project Loon. This experimental project allows hot air balloons flying around for months to provide Internet from the air.
“You can imagine that balloons and airplanes form a network that we can merge,” Pichai said.
He said that a large part of the balloons can fly now two hundred days continuously. At that time internet with 4G speed offered. Google is working for the test along with providers in different countries.
Africa
Pichai said that more and more people get a smartphone, but that internet connections in emerging countries are often still problematic. Google sees his flying networks as a potential solution, but also provides assistance in deploying wireless networks in several African countries.
Under the name Project Link builds Google fiber networks in several African cities, which can then be connected to 4G networks of local providers. “We’re going Projectlink this year rollout to many more countries in Africa,” said Pichai.
He also confirmed that Google in America will be active as a virtual provider to the network of other US providers. He gave no further details and said that it is a small-scale pilot
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