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I've been wondering lately what would happen if someone like Google decided to build their own cellular network. Is there a way that someone could disrupt that industry?
Rumor Mill: Google Acquiring Sprint http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/google/rumor-mill-g...
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I think this is more around trying to force the broadband providers to get their act together. Scare them ;0)
They use the scare tactics a lot, but they didn't work in the wireless spectrum auction did they?
I don't understand why the go for the 1gbit fiber to the home. it would be more helpfull to their business if everybody in the u.s would have 2 or 5 or 10mbit/sec in a short time , then if everybody has 1gbit/sec in a much longer time. Also , does anybody know mass market applications that require more then 10mbit up/10mbit down?
Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Did you hear that? It sounded as if millions of hollywood executives suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
On the other note, I do hope that Hollywood would embrace this as an opportunity not as a problem.
However, if anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can expect big media to cling to the old ways of doing business for as long as they can...
Time for the other so-called broadband providers to shake in their boots. I like companies that have no respect for established business models. In this perspective, despite its size, I think it's fair to call Google a start-up.
Yeah, after Google starts selling broadband significantly below cost, no real ISP will be able to meet customers' inflated expectations.
I'm confused. Won't Google be the sole service provider of its own network?
I don't understand why the go for the 1gbit fiber to the home. it would be more helpfull to their business if everybody in the u.s would have 2 or 5 or 10mbit/sec in a short time , then if everybody has 1gbit/sec in a much longer time. Also , does anybody know mass market applications that require more then 10mbit up/10mbit down?
Mass market applications that utilise 1gbit connections do not exist because the mass market does not have 1gbit connections.
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Was that what it was? Because I think it sounded a lot like scandinavia sighing that we've had this for a decade. (I'm sure other countries has too, the US really has backwater infrastructure.)
Admittedly this probably has a lot to do with luddite technology policy, but surely it has more to do with the U.S. having 10 times the land mass and 15 times the population as Scandanavia [1]. [1] Stats from Wikipedia, summing Norway + Sweden + Denmark area and most recent population vs. United States.
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I think it has more to do with that we don't leave infrastructure development squarely in the hands of the market.
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Yeah, after Google starts selling broadband significantly below cost, no real ISP will be able to meet customers' inflated expectations.
I don't think Google is going to sell at below cost, the limitation on large network's bandwidth is primarily routing technology which has continued to improve while US broadband has stagnated. It's not like other countries have not been rolling out low cost 1Gbit consumer connections for a while. PS: Despite all these talk of caps etc, upstream bandwidth is still a small chunk of a large ISP's budget.