Can Google Fly Its Internet Balloons Wherever It Wants?

The Internet is abuzz with news of the first public flight tests in New Zealand of Google's Project Loon, which aims to provide Internet access to underserved areas using a network of high-altitude balloons. As Google explained in a June 14 blog post: We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides Internet access to the earth below. It's very early days, but we've built a system that uses balloons, carr...