Google asked to revise frequency for Project Loon; Microsoft’s White Spaces to connect schools

A Google Loon Balloon before a lift-off.
Initial reservation notwithstanding, the Centre has set the ball rolling on innovative pilot projects by Google and Microsoft for potentially expanding Internet reach in India and had asked Google India to submit a revised proposal with a new frequency band for deploying its Project Loon in India.
Google, which had approached the Department of Information and Technology (DeitY) late last year to conduct pilot test of Project Loon in the frequency band 70