Verizon CEO says Google and Microsoft should pay more for the use of high-bandwidth web apps
Verizon CEO says Google and Microsoft should pay more for the use of high-bandwidth web apps
I think Google has a vision 10 years out where they are by far the highest user of wireless bandwidth in the country. With folks like Verizon already making noises and Google paying through the nose for it, is it any wonder Google is investigating being their own wireless provider? Even if it’s only a couple of engineers in their 20% time for now.
No one finds it so far-fetched that Google would build its own datacenters, rather than go with something like an Exodus. No one even finds it far-fetched that they would build these little cubes that they would deposit all over the world. In an increasingly mobile-enabled future, it probably makes just as much sense to lay your own wireless networks as it does to buy your own fiber.
(in as much as it makes sense to buy your own fiber, if you get what I mean — not many companies are doing this at the rate Google is:-) )
Reminds me of that traditional retail quote:
“Why can we make these products so cheap? We own the factories!!”