Google plans to fill the sky with balloons and drones

Sundar Pichai is the head of Android, Google Apps and Google Chrome. That is the reason why, during his "keynote" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​which have been presented as the most powerful man in the world of mobile telephony.

Sundar has focused his lecture on the growing importance attached to the mobile phone in recent years, and the role of Google applications like Google Translate, which serves 1,000 million translations per day. We all know that the smartphone has become an indispensable device in our life, and we all hope that it is becoming more connected, give us more services, then we obviously life a little easier and more comfortable.

But there is still a high percentage of the population that does not have a mobile connection, many areas where no signal. Entire population, especially in the "Third World", which is not yet connected, represents a great growth opportunity for Google and other companies.

Titan, Loon and Fiber

The most interesting presentation Sundar Pichai, was when he spoke of Titan, Loon and Fiber, the three projects of Google to provide a stable mobile connection in places where antennas fail.

Fiber is the simplest, it is disconnected bring fiber to rural and urban areas. The Loon project, which already has three years of development, is to launch into the atmosphere large balloons that provide connection to a wide area. While Titan, use planes or drones loaded with solar panels to provide connection to a much smaller space, especially designed for specific needs, such as a natural disaster area left incommunicado.

Loon and Titan are projects that seem taken from a book of science fiction, but it is technology that Google, according to Sundar, has already been tested in Australia and the United States, and is ready to start working on a larger scale.

Developing mobile network ...

Google is also developing a virtual mobile network in the US, which will give details in the coming months.

"The core of Android and everything we do has an ecosystem approach and [a network would have] the same attributes. We have always tried to push the limit with innovations in hardware and software. We want to experiment along those lines. We have no intention of being a network operator to scale. We are currently working with carrier partners. Announce something in the coming months, "Sundar said about the presentation.

The executive has also devoted a few words to Android Pay, an API layer functions in Android, which allows mobile payment. It is a way to standardize a payment system on Android devices. Google Wallet, a virtual wallet current Google, Android would be a client of Pay, said Sundar.