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It’s likely we’ll end up in an “all of the above” world, in which distant, powerful satellites provide for streaming media while an assortment of balloons, drones and close-in satellites will provide more responsive Internet. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internets-future-lies-up-in-the-skies-1418603566. "It is true many applications can use satellites and other airborne objects and most of the world might be connected that way for some time. But in the end, given rising bandwidth demands for "modern" applications over time, as the nature of such applications change and become more demanding, optical fibers are required to carry most of the traffic, and will remain so. Especially as the achievable speed of modulation of photonic signals will continue to increase." Harvey Newman. Thus the higher performance of the Facebook laser transmitting drones may eventually supecede the wireless transmissions of the Google balloons.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34780127 balloons (Google) vs drones (Facebook, Google)
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