Gods' own broadband: Loon option for DEITY

Alphabet has its eye on its next billion, reportedly holding meetings in India to get Project Loon off the ground. The country's IT minister, responsible for the gloriously-named DEITY (Department of Electronics and Information Technology), expressed his interest in the project late last week. The move would add India to the …

[Fraggle850]

And so the battle lines are drawn...

With Facebook already in the space but drawing flack for it's somewhat limited offering it'll be interesting to see how this pans out. Which of the two American tech giants will win the battle to spam the subcontinent with advertising?

I'd personally like to see a guerilla action by some enterprising Indian upstart enter the fray and show them both the way home.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: And so the battle lines are drawn...

Perhaps TPP will take effect in some area where Loon and FB drones are finally launched, in time to let them turn into an interesting test case.

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

In line with Davey boys 'everyone should be on 10Meg' broadband, surely an opportunity for Project Loon to come to the UK and give the country folk some much needed relief.

[ratfox]

The problem with using Loon in India is that the balloons would eventually end up flying over China. I can't see them being happy about that.

[Anonymous Coward]

'I can't see them being happy about that'

...especially if there are 99 red ones.

[Anonymous Coward]

The Great Game in India

Continues apace.

So which of GoogleAlphabet and Facebook is the British Empire and which the Russian in all this.

And where's the modern Kipling writing of it?

[Anonymous Coward]

$DEITY

surely?