{"id":63491,"date":"2017-02-17T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63491"},"modified":"2017-02-17T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:44:58","slug":"sri-lanka-to-lose-google-loon-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/17\/sri-lanka-to-lose-google-loon-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to lose Google loon project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Xinhua News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"Content\" class=\"artTxt\">\n<p>COLOMBO, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka is to lose the Google Project Loon as the company was looking for other options, a minister said here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Harin Fernando, Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure, told a news conference that there was a delay on the part of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).<\/p>\n<p>Project Loon is an innovation by Google and is a network of balloons travelling on the edge of space, designed to extend internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sri Lanka will lose the opportunity unfortunately. I briefed both the president and the prime minister about it,&#8221; he told a news conference here in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The project proposal was handed over to the Sri Lankan authorities in 2015. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Google Company the same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua News COLOMBO, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka is to lose the Google Project Loon as the company was looking for other options, a minister said here on Thursday. Harin Fernando, Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure, told a news conference that there was a delay on the part of the International Telecommunication Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}