Google as ISP: Offering 1GPS connections to homes

[charlie]

Whether they're actually planning to be a national provider or they're just making a proof-of-concept testbed for their next gen apps, one thing's for certain -- if even ONE community gets hooked at GIG speeds for a reasonable price, Comcast, ATT, Verizon, TW, et al will be exposed as foot-dragging, low-value, money-sucking lardasses.

At long last.

...Google is planning to build, and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the country. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000, and potentially up to 500,000 people.

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/overview

Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home trial

[RoyGBiv]

1. Called it ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=242&topic_id=28774&mesg_id=28778

I'm just sayin' ... :)

This will certainly be interesting.

[charlie]

2. BAM!

And you scooped blowhard Dvorak by 2 months.

Learn to thunder with imperious certitude, Roy. He can't hang on to that cush job forever :D

Yes indeed, Google's in the midst of becoming a tentacled monster, aren't they? I'm trying to think of another company that's been so exuberantly expansive, ranging so far afield from their core businesses (space elevators, public transit, wifi, "smart" utility meters, etc, etc... !!!), so full of boil and churn, splattershotting new products like popcorn... and I can't. They have the prized qualities of nimbleness and innovation, done in Internet Time.

And remarkably, they've managed to hold on to public regard as benign, if not benevolent. By this time in Google's age, Microsoft was releasing Windows 3 and Office, and unease with their hegemony was already mainstream. Google's still everybody's Happy Fun buddy. They're a charmed bunch.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

3. That is so true

People don't seem to see about how pervasive Google has become in their lives. Those that do don't seem to care that Google tracks everything they do from web-browsing to shopping to their email's content. Many think of Google as this cool progressive company when in fact it's become a corporate behemoth with incredible profit margins and a board of directors. Just like Monsanto.

[RoyGBiv]

4. And so it begins ...

(PITTSBURGH) February 12, 2010 - Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced today that the City of Pittsburgh will seek designation by Google Inc. as a target community for the company's plan to construct an ultra-high speed broadband network in one or more locations across the country. The City will be assisted in this effort by Carnegie Mellon University, a recognized leader in networking and computer science as well as engineering research and education.

http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/mayor/html/city_press_releases.html#Feb_12_google

The City of Seattle, Microsoft's home turf, says it will push to become one of the first locales in the country to tap ultra-fast Internet service.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
February 12, 2010 01:30 PM

So much for not in my backyard. The city of Seattle, whose Redmond suburb has been home to Microsoft for about 25 years, wants to be first in line for a new, superfast Internet service from the software maker's biggest rival.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222900232&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

Now let's just wait and see which cable-telco is approached first by Microsoft to try to block this legally while they work behind the scenes to put up their own, far inferior offering.

For techno-political geek hybrids, this is going to be like watching the Super Bowl, World Series, and March Madness all rolled into one.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

5. ....

:popcorn: