Google Inc. has achieved some success in tests balloons carrying Repeating equipment to provide access to the Internet in the regions of the world where terrestrial infrastructure is either poorly developed or non-existent. Balls learned remain airborne for over 100 days, using a special installation to launch a ball takes less than 30 minutes and force a minimum number of people.
In the further development of Project Loon initiative, however, there may be legal barriers The fact that the inventor of such information transmission technology claims the US company Space Data Corporation, in 1999, filed a patent application describing "telecommunications platform and method of working groups of aircraft." The second patent describes methods for the safe landing of unmanned aerial vehicles lighter than air.
Interestingly, the founders of Google visited this company back in 2008.