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

[Parminder]

Rui

I agree with your concerns Rui. We seem to moving towards a situation 
where 'google is the Internet' for many practical purposes. If we do 
remember the maxim of 'absolute power corrupts absolutely' we can see 
that we are headed towards major regulatory issues which need to be 
taken cognizance of early. However I do feel that in the US, which is 
illegitimately the digital regulation capital of the world, Google seems 
to have too much influence with the new ruling dispensation. In any case 
such is the hold of neoliberal beliefs that it is almost certain that - 
like in the case of the financial meltdown - the world will have to wait 
for major crises before the needed (democratic) global regulation of 
digital spaces begins to take shape. Parminder

Rui Correia wrote:
> 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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