New Clearwire Won't Use Google FiberAd delivery is our game, k thx
08:54AM Wednesday May 21 2008 by Karl Bodetags: Fiber · wireless · GoogleI was
never much for the annoying and persistent rumor that Google was going to become a national broadband provider. Every time the company bought fiber, hired a networking expert (like TCP/IP co-creator Vint Cerf) or invested in the 700Mhz auction -- people assumed they wanted to become Google, the ISP. The truth is that Google was always interested in just one thing: selling advertisements and beefing up their infrastructure. As additional proof: Now that Google has directly invested $500 million into the new Clearwire WiMax joint-venture, the company won't even be allowing the new company to
piggyback on their vast fiber links.
The recent $500 million investment by Google into a "new" Clearwire venture threw up the intriguing prospect that the operator might be able to use Google's dark fiber resources to reduce the cost of connecting its cell sites back to the wired Internet. Google, however, got back to Unstrung on Monday to say that such a move isn't in the cards.
Google will of course have search and application priority on the new network. But Google as an ISP was always an unfounded pipe dream.
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