[governance] Google's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks

[Eric Dierker]

Clearly FTC exceptions are to many to enumerate.  But the core question that would not be in real debate would be "does this hurt competition?" Clearly not.

--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com>
Subject: [governance] Google's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 10:55 AM


Dear all

Is this not going to atract anti-trust/ cross-ownership attention?

Google has announced plans to build a number of trial fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in communities across the US, claiming that it will provide broadband at downlink speeds of up to 1Gbps. James Kelly, project manager on Google's infrastructure team, said: ‘We are doing this because we want to experiment with new ways to make the web better and faster for everyone, allowing new applications that aren't possible today. We are going to try out new ways to build and operate fibre networks and share what we learn with the world.’

http://telecomafrica.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-to-build-fibre-optic-network.html

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