Comments on: Your telco is full of crap: Google to roll out residential gigabit fibre just to show how it’s done

By: WirelessNorth

WirelessNorth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:02:55 +0000

Thanks for your comment Michael. Google has since indicated (see our most recent post on google) that they have no intention of entering the ISP business, this is an RFP and open pilot they have announced which they hope to share the results of to the entire industry (and no doubt regulators).

In reality the announcement is a stunt, designed to get the attention of ICT policy makers in a desire to push policy makers, regulators and indeed the industry to aim higher, much higher, when thinking about what our goals should be for broadband.

Of course google themselves have everything to gain by resetting expectations ever higher for faster, more available broadband.

By: Michael B

Michael B — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:41:44 +0000

Compare apples to apples. Let's see Google provide the service with 90% population coverage for that price. The costs and challenges aren't servicing a downtown core, it's expanding that out to a broadly distributed population.

By: WirelessNorth

WirelessNorth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:02:55 +0000

By: Michael B

Michael B — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:41:44 +0000

By: Peter Bodifee

Peter Bodifee — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:00:14 +0000

Brough Turner recently had an interesting blog on this issue:
http://blogs.broughturner.com/2010/01/network-n...