<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>If by restricted, you mean filtered to only allow govt sanctioned access, then perhaps not. You need the special google antenna which is red and probably mounted outside. Not very hard for the "enforcers" to spot who might be trying to bypass the "restrictions".</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">"Technicians came to the volunteers' homes and attached to the outside
walls bright red receivers the size of basketballs and resembling giant
Google map pins."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/google-begins-launching-internet-beaming-balloons</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Tony.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Hood <dsmhood@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> Bevan Slattery <bevan@slattery.net.au> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Tony <td_miles@yahoo.com>; "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 15 July 2013 3:24 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] Google Loon Balloon Broadband<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4688133751"><div dir="ltr">Interesting concept, could be used to give countries unrestricted internet that had it previously restricted.<div><br></div><div>Dan</div></div><br></div><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>