For example, technology companies are key players in connecting the unconnected. While Facebook’s Aquila project, which aimed to use solar-powered drones as satellites, was recently abandoned, Google’s Loon project was spun off into its own company in July 2018. Starting as a research project, Loon uses a network of high-flying balloons to deliver Internet access to people in rural and unserved areas. In 2014, the first LTE connection was made with a local school in Brazil.