 | | Google fiber Google has national fiber strands/waves. Long haul from city to city. Cell backhaul is a completely different part of the network, and there is little doubt that Googe's assets are all but useless for the purpose of cell backhaul. (Not that Clearwire won't have some national IP/data needs.)
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 odogCable Centric Vendor BiasedPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-05
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| Ya still need the loop Local loop that is. Sprint has a pretty vast intra-city fiber network and could offer Clearwire the same thing as Google. The ILEC still needs to provide a local loop to the tower or some indy fiber operator.... and maybe... just maybe the cable company! | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| Re: Ya still need the loop I recall reading on here that cable companies have worked iwth Sprint in the past for local loops. So why not now? Also, Clearwire really doesn't need Google's help with dark fiber etc. sprintLink's network is high-capacity and nationwide already, and the cable companies can probably do the "last mile" to the towers. | |
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| | | | Re: Ya still need the loop said by iansltx:I recall reading on here that cable companies have worked iwth Sprint in the past for local loops. So why not now? Also, Clearwire really doesn't need Google's help with dark fiber etc. sprintLink's network is high-capacity and nationwide already, and the cable companies can probably do the "last mile" to the towers. You are right. Comcast and TW are also investors in this venture and I expect that they will use their local infrastructure to provide links to the Wimax towers.
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| | If google became an ISP... They would simply be the best dam ISP they could be, or at least beat the s**t out of the rest in competition.
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Google doesn't have it in them Google isn't nearly evil and greedy and conniving enough to be an ISP.
Besides, they'd end up suing themselves for blocking customer downloads of content that was found on their search engine. It'd be quite the contradicting paradox!
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| | Google is in the database mastering business .... not the business of building their own networks. Google has never intended to take part in networks except as a catalyst to further the shift to open IP networks and devices that is an even playing field.
Their part in Clearwire, the Google-Earthlink metro-fi folly, and any similar WBB network deployment are just a means to an end to leverage regulators, suppliers, and network operators to make the shift to open networks. | |
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