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    1. 02-10-2010 11:51 PM #1
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      Google ISP

      Google is getting into the broadband business. The company plans to deploy its own “experimental” fiber-optic network to at least 50,000 homes, perhaps as many as 500,000. The fiber-optic network will deliver speeds of 1 gigabit-per-second, which is more than 20 times faster than residential fiber optic services offered today in the U.S.
      Whoa, Google is unstoppable.
      More here:
      http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/goo...-network-home/

      (Be careful searching for info about this, I ran into 2 malicious websites trying to get more info.)
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    2. 02-11-2010 01:08 AM #2
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      Google could buy a small country if it wanted to.

      Honestly, 1Gbs? That's insane. I'd kill for that much bandwidth.
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      Yeah I just read about this, it sounds very interesting. I wonder when Google will start going to other planets?

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      http://www.google.com/tisp/
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      Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken View Post
      http://www.google.com/tisp/
      Is that supposed to be serious?
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      Looks like it.
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      Quote Originally Posted by SleepyCookieDough View Post
      Is that supposed to be serious?
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%...es#Google_TiSP

      Anyway,
      From what I've heard from people across the pond,
      there's a serious lack of competition in US broadband services
      often with customers having only a single ISP choice
      This means that ISP's have absolutely no incentive to improve services or reduce costs, leading to expensive but lacking service
      (I don't know how true this is for major cities, but I've heard it's quite bad in more rural areas)

      I think this is Google's way of tackling that
      (after all, their core business relies on people having reliable net connections)
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      I'm pretty gullable and since it looks so serious, I'm almost believing it but it doesn't make any sense that you would put a cable in your toilet, flush and that it be brought somewhere for google to plug it in somwhere. I refuse to be that gullable. There, i don't believe it. Oh, I feel good!
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    9. 02-11-2010 06:46 AM #9
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      Damn, go Google. *buys massive quantities of Google stock*

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