Google announces the end of its ambitious Loon project

For years, Google was known for one of its most ambitious and unique projects, and it was related to the Loon project, which aimed to provide the Internet to the poor in poor countries as well as remote areas across the world at a very low cost than what is available for local and global telecommunications companies

But the Loon project has actually come to an end after a new decision from Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, which was revealed by the CEO of the project Alastair Westgarth himself through an article on the popular platform Medium, where he explained the reasons that led the company to permanently abandon The Loon Project, commenting: "While we found a number of willing partners along the way, we did not find a way to cut costs enough to build a long-term sustainable business"

Alastair Westgarth went on to elaborate on why the ambitious dream of the Loon project had ended: “We talk a lot about connecting the next billion users, but the truth is that Loon has been chasing the toughest problem ever connecting the last billion users: communities in hard-to-reach or very remote areas , Or areas where service is provided Current technologies are too expensive for ordinary people

Thus, the Loon project, which was born as an idea in 2011 with Google, has actually come to an end after a lot of research and experiments