Bharti Airtel joins Alphabet’s high altitude internet service firm Loon

Alphabet’s high altitude internet service company Loon LLC on Friday announced an industry-wide alliance with some of the world’s leading companies to promote the use of high-altitude vehicles for facilitating internet connection.

“A group of global industry leaders today announced that they are forming the HAPS Alliance, an association of world-leading telecommunications, technology, aviation, and aerospace companies that are united in promoting the use of high altitude vehicles in the Earth’s stratosphere to eliminate the digital divide and bring connectivity to more people, places, and things worldwide,” the company said in an official Medium post.

The members of this alliance dubbed the HAPS Alliance include SoftBank Corp.’s HAPSMobile Inc. (“HAPSMobile”), Alphabet’s Loon LLC (“Loon”), Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti Airtel”), Airbus Defence and Space,