[telecom] Google sending balloons to help PR phone service

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Google to use balloons for Puerto Rico phone service

Alphabet Inc is sending high-altitude balloons to provide phone service to island devastated by Hurricane Maria.

Alphabet Inc, the company that controls Google, is sending special balloons to Puerto Rico to help restore phone service after the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria last month.

The US Federal Communications Commission said it had approved the company's application to provide the emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico. ===== rest:

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