[TriLUG] google to offer FttH?

[Michael Peters]

On 03/22/2010 03:21 PM, Dave Moody wrote:
> Google would not be doing this if they did not plan on getting into this in a big way, obviously. They already know about our searches, and this would get them into the "highway" business.  But when you are on the highway, you can only go where the highway goes.

Not necessarily. Google could be trying to push telcoms and 
municipalities into making people more connected at higher speeds. They 
realize they are positioned to benefit greatly if people have more 
bandwidth with better videos on youtube, or their google tv stuff they 
are experimenting with. So if more people have bigger pipes they'll win. 
Even if they take a loss on the pipes themselves.

I see it as something similar to Chrome. It's not that Google wants to 
be in the browser business, but the lack of progress from other browser 
vendors was frustrating to them. So they uppped the ante by making their 
own and sending everyone else scrambling to match.

If they killed Chrome as a project now they'd still win because browsers 
are now faster than they would have been had Chrome not come along.

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP