{"id":129588,"date":"2019-04-25T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=243238"},"modified":"2019-04-25T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:30:57","slug":"softbank-division-invests-in-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/25\/softbank-division-invests-in-loon\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank division invests in Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tSoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile signed a partnership and invested in Alphabet&#8217;s Loon business, with the two set to work together on promoting the use of high altitude communications systems.<\/p>\n<p>The deal covers a $125 million investment by HAPSMobile in Loon and includes a provision for a reciprocal investment at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the two said they are actively exploring commercial collaborations to accelerate the deployment of high-altitude connectivity systems. The partners&#8217; ultimate goals are to expand mobile internet penetration levels, enable IoT applications and assist deployment of 5G.<\/p>\n<p>Topics being discussed include a bilateral wholesale deal; a common ground station which could be deployed globally; adapting Loon\u2019s fleet management system for use by HAPSMobile; and creating an alliance to lobby regulators and officials.<\/p>\n<p>President and CEO of HAPSMobile Junichi Miyakawa said &#8220;building a telecommunications network in the stratosphere&#8221; is a &#8220;major challenge&#8221; for parent SoftBank.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration with Loon will see the companies pool &#8220;technologies, insights and experience&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>HAPSMobile&#8217;s technology centres on providing mobile coverage to remote areas and disaster sites from its Hawk30 aircraft. Loon has similar use cases, but delivers the signal from high-altitude balloons. It has already provided coverage in Puerto Rico [1] in the wake of Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/project-loon-now-connecting-100k-in-puerto-rico\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile signed a partnership and invested in Alphabet&rsquo;s Loon business, with the two &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/softbank-division-invests-in-loon\/\">SoftBank division invests in Loon<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/25\/softbank-division-invests-in-loon\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,4757,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-xI8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129589,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129588\/revisions\/129589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}