Google Eyes Sending Cell Towers Aloft?

By Nick Mokey
February 21, 2008

A company that offers balloon-based cell phone service may have caught the attention of Google, according to the Wall Street Journal.

We’ve already grown accustomed to Google taking some pretty creative approaches to the way it does things, so it should really come as no surprise that the company has some pretty pie-in-the-sky ideas for setting up a cell network. Or more accurately, balloon-in-the-sky ideas. According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, Google may be investigating giant balloons as a means for replacing cell phone towers.

The article cites sources who say Google has its eyes on Space Data Corp., a company that has already put the balloon concept into practice. Space Data launches ten balloons daily in the Southern U.S., where they are used by truckers and oil rigs for their brief 24-hour lifespans. The balloons carry cell ...

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