
Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light. Its newest product, debuting this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, aims at a different kind of connectivity problem: getting internet access into buildings in cities that already have plenty of fiber—just not where it’s needed.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company transmits data via infrared lasers, of the typically used in fiber optic lines. However, Taara’s systems…

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