SAN FRANCISCO: Google parent Alphabet Inc has signed a deal to work with three Indonesian telecommunications firms to test its Internet-beaming balloons across the country, part of an effort to get more of the world online to broaden the audience for Google’s services.
“It’s going to take a number of companies and governments and organisations coming together to provide communications to everyone, but we are super-excited to play a role,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of the Mountain View, California-based company, said.
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