Google talking Up Proposal for Crazy Fast Broadband
Posted: February 11th, 2010, 1:06 am
Business Week wrote:Google Dangles 100 Times Faster Internet Speeds In Fiber PlanClick Here for Full Story
February 10, 2010, 10:42 PM EST
By Ari Levy and Brian Womack
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s effort to offer Internet access at speeds 100 times faster than those available today raises the bar for U.S. cable and phone companies as the government readies a national broadband plan.
“They’ve just defined the new minimum,” said Reed Hundt, who was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997 and now has an advisory firm in Washington. “They have just effectively written the first page in the report.”
Google’s proposal, announced yesterday in a blog posting, is to build fiber-optic networks for as many as 500,000 people with connections of 1 gigabit per second. That’s 20 times the speed of the fastest residential connections from AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., and more than 1,000 times faster than the cheapest connections.