Wow. It appears that Google may be entering the internet service provider business.
Just this week, Google announced that they plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks at one, possibly several, communities across the United States. This fiber-to-the-home network would allow home users to upload and download at speeds of over 1 gigabit per second. Holy hyper connection speeds, Batman!
The United States actually regressed in our broadband speeds last year, and in many communities there are no competitors against incumbent ISP’s, so there’s been no incentive to upgrade. Will the Google experiment change that? We’ll see. One thing is relatively certain, though. Whichever community is picked as the test site for Google’s experiment will likely see a boost in their publicity and economy.
Here’s the cool part: From now until March 26th, you can nominate your very own community to Google to be elected as the test site for this new network. I’ve already nominated Tulsa! =)
What do you think of Google’s latest project? Leave a comment below!
