Report: Google Building a Wireless Network in Secret
Up to 50 base stations to be utilized, as well as 200 "user devices".
Google is seemingly building a secret wireless network, with the search engine giant preparing to utilize up to 50 base stations.
The technology giant was originally interested in building a wireless network in partnership with Dish Network, but the latter has been attempting to purchase Clearwire.
Google now seems to be building its own wireless network after FCC filings were discovered by wireless engineer Steven Crowley. The company will utilize up to 50 base stations and 200 "user devices" during the experimental period in order create the network.
The wireless network itself will operate in two narrow segments of the 2.5GHz frequency band. Incidentally, the band is part of the spectrum owned by Clearwire.
Google's lawyers have requested to have parts of the FCC filing removed, with its argument being: "The information for which confidential treatment is sought concerns the highly competitive consumer electronics market."
At that speed makes no difference if is fiber or not.
Google Carrier+Android Phones
What more can you ask.
to answer your question, less big brother... more privacy.
a google that has names linked to every net activity is a very bad thing. if you don't understand why there are plenty of resources on the internet to help you understand the dangers of centralized databases on everything everyone does on the net.
...and just to pre-empt the inevitable "I have nothing to hide... yada yada". People probably fealt that way right before WWII. If you were Jewish in europe during that time then ypu would have had a lot to hide... basically any evidence of jewish culture in your life. Had Hitler had access to Google's server logs... you do the math. Care to predict what the next completely inocuous thing that will become the focus of arbitrary persecution? You should if you think it's a great idea for the google datamining operation to expand into full-text transcripts of every phone conversation, text message, photograph etc, that occurs on the google system.
False. Throughput is only part of the picture. No wireless carrier that I know of can match the low latency of wireline.