Google ran tests with Australian carrier Telstra, but only in a small area with 20 or so balloons. In India, however, the company intends to run a full-scale pilot program. According to the Times' sources, it is speaking with a telco called BSNL, though Google wouldn't confirm that. However, it says that, "at a simplistic level, it's just infrastructure in the sky ... the actual provisioning of the service is done by a local telco." Google has already said that unlike Facebook's Free Basics internet service -- which was banned in India -- Project Loon wouldn't restrict content. If the test program proves successful (and not risky, as some critics think), it will open up the internet to a large number of folks who would have no chance of being connected otherwise.