MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- Alphabet's Project Loon is one step closer to taking flight. The project uses high-flying balloons to beam Wi-Fi access to remote areas of the globe.

Alphabet president Sergey Brin with Indonesia’s top telecom executive in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, October 28. Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder.

Alphabet said this time around, it plans to dispatch hundreds of balloons 12 miles high over the island nation. Indonesia is seemingly an excellent candidate for Project Loon testing.

Google's corporate parent, Alphabet, has recently announced that it has signed contracts with three of Indonesia's largest telecommunication companies, namely Indosat, XL Asiata, and Telkomsel ...

The three largest cellular networks serving Indonesia’s 250 million people are set to get an upgrade from a fleet of stratospheric helium balloons floating 20 kilometers overhead. The Loon ...

Alphabet’s giant Internet balloons are about to take flight over Indonesia in the coming year. This makes it the fourth country that partnered with Google to beam Internet signals from 12 miles ...

October 29, 2015 18:10 PM UTC - Updated September 05, 2017 19:51 PM UTC That's right! Alphabet's Project Loon is here and it aims to release giant balloons that will beam the Internet to millions ...