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Google Testing Project Loon: Concerns Are Without Factual Basis

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward https://thestack.com/ at 2016-01-29 15:20:49
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In a filing submitted to the FCC Google has stated that while concerns for health and environmental risks posed by Project Loon testing were ‘genuinely held,’ that ‘there is no factual basis for them.’ Google’s filing attempts to address a wide range of complaints [thestack.com], from environmental concerns related to increased exposure to RF and microwave radiation, to concerns for loss of control and crashes of the balloons themselves. First, it states that its proposed testing poses no health or environmental risks, and is all well within the standards of experimentation [fcc.gov] that the FCC regularly approves. It also pledges to avoid interference with any other users of the proposed bandwidth, by collocating transmitters on shared platforms and sharing information kept current daily by an FCC-approved third party database manager.

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