[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[T. J. Brumfield]

Except I do believe Google specifically said on their blog their
intent is gigabit-to-the-home. They want to see what people will do
with the network. When they say open network, I think they mean
exactly that.

They want to see someone invent the next YouTube, or whatever.

They're all for an empowered and growing internet. If we all have
faster access, we just put more information online.

The more ubiquitous the internet is in our lives, the more important
Google is in our lives.

Google lives and dies with the internet, which is why they've made a
BSD-licensed browser, a net-focused OS, and a smart phone platform to
deliver a better internet on your phone.

None of these will be revenue streams. I think Google would be content
to provide internet access at cost.

In their survey they ask what you don't like about your ISP. If that
meant Google was going to turn right around and tell us to stick with
Cox, that doesn't make too much sense, unless Google gets to scare Cox
and other ISPs into treating us better.

If Google does allow Cox to remain the ISP, Google will own every inch
if fiber, to the home, and lease it to Cox on the understanding the
price is cheap, and that they maintain network neutrality. If they
don't, Google leases it to someone else, or decides to enter the ISP
business themselves.

However, entering the ISP business might provoke some anti-trust
conversations. Then again, Comcast (in buying the NBC Networks) owns
the content and the connection. It isn't stopping them.

-- T. J. Brumfield

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> I seriously doubt that's what they mean by an open network.
>
> Google wants the job of the telco - provide the physical connectivity,
> let others provide internet access. In that context, "open network"
> means Google will freely let Cox, Qwest, Internet Nebraska, or anyone
> else who asks, have access to their fiber to connect their equipment. It
> *does not* mean John Smith across the street from you can do whatever
> they want with the connectivity they derive from that fiber.
>
> Plus, gigabit speeds only means gigabit to the ISP. That doesn't mean
> the ISP can give you gigabit to the rest of the world, nor does it mean
> that the "content providers" out there on the 'net can feed you their
> content at gigabit speeds.
>
> Dan Linder wrote:
>> To me that implies that you won't get shut down for sharing your WiFi
>> with friends and neighbors, or hosting a web/mail server in your home.
>>  Imagine if the radio companies of the 20's had clamped down on
>> homebrew experimentation?  Imagine what a smart high-school kid with a
>> bit of electrical and programming prowess could do if he wanted to
>> setup a wireless network with his friend a few blocks away.  Today his
>> parents would be afraid he'd get them black-listed from their ISP.
>> With a truly open access network, not only could he experiment like
>> this, but he might just invent something useful.
>>
>> And with Gigabit speeds, we'd finally start to realize true InternetTV
>> and services such as NetFlix could offer very high-quality on-demand
>> shows.  It would also open up the TeleCo promise (made 50+ years ago)
>> of a true VideoPhone technology.  No more pixelated and jerky video
>> when the neighbors kid starts viewing a video from YouTube.
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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