Facebook in turn competes to provide high speed internet to Africans. The American giant has joined forces with the European satellite operator Eutelsat to meet this challenge.
«By 2015, Google believes it will be able to create an 80 km wide ring that would ensure continuous network coverage in the southern hemisphere. And the director of the Loon project, Mike Cassidy, predicts that in 2016, Google will be able to offer a mobile phone network. LTE powered by its balloons in rural areas of South America, South Africa and Oceania ”, wrote Slate.fr in December 2014.