NTT hopes to succeed where Google Loon and Facebook Aquila failed

Offering connectivity from balloons and drones is proving a tough nut to crack, but NTT has lined up some partners that it hopes will deliver a breakthrough.
The Japanese telco has teamed up with its mobile arm DoCoMo, aircraft maker Airbus and Japanese satcoms provider Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation to conduct a feasibility study on high altitude platform stations (HAPS). Deployed at altitudes of around 20 kilometres, they are essentially flying base stations that can provide coverage to a radius