Comments on: Google Doesn't Want to Be an ISP — It Wants to Be a Rabble-rouser http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Did Your Town Get Google Fiber? Google’s Not Telling Yet.: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-551816 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:31:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-551816 [...] about Google’s conversations with other municipalities, I’m still eager to see how the search giant can shake up the broadband access business. Given the lack of competition, the tussle over network neutrality and the need for fatter and [...]

]]> By: Google Begins Using Its Planned Fiber Networkto Flog ISPs http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239796 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:33:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239796 [...] in order to show people and governments what a modern broadband network should cost– possibly lighting a fire under ISPs who are reluctant to upgrade their networks. Its new site gives people and municipalities a match [...]

]]> By: Hey ISPs, Google Wants to Share Its Fiber Network http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239795 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:45:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239795 [...] story by BroadbandBreakfast.com. The publication quotes a project manager in charge of the program (whom we’ve also interviewed before), as saying: “We definitely inviting the Comcasts, the AT&T service providers to work with us [...]

]]> By: Ethan http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239794 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:48:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239794 Google isn’t going to change how they operate. In response to Blandy’s “Google doesn’t make cell phones. They make an OS for cell phones.” She is absolutely right. Google loves to work in the background, making deals with others in order to make their own profits. With that, you all should read this article:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html

I, like many others, believe this hits the nail on the head. It’s how Google has always operated. It makes perfect sense.

]]> By: Byron http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239793 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:58:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239793 I think all that Google wants to do is goose existing ISP providers into upgrading horribly shoddy crap they have. They now have no incentive to do so and will not unless shot in the foot (oh, I’m sorry, until the ‘Invisible Hand’ does something or other…). Sigh. Google is probably only looking at sites that already have a huge investment in what is now black cable, ie all of that crap that the dot.boom.busts laid down in the 80/90′s.

]]> By: The Deadline Is Tomorrow But Google Fiber Is Already Changing Towns – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239792 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:38:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239792 [...] could accrue to municipalities through a more connected and engaged citizenry and hopefully through showing the U.S. what it means to have a truly open fiber network that could boost competition for broadband connectivity. From Austin’s FAQs on the topic: [...]

]]> By: Shawn Hill http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239791 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:30:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239791 Minnie Ingersoll is one of countless examples of why Google is so often referred to as “the giant”. Google Fiber for Communities is an opportunity of a lifetime. Longview, Texas hopes to welcome Google with open arms in what will become an invaluable community partnership.

]]> By: YouTube Might be the IPTV Platform of the Future http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239790 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:23:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239790 [...] speculate that Viacom may fear a Google-backed IPTV solution that is based off of YouTube.  Given Google’s recent gigabit broadband announcement and the Google/gigabit fan-frenzy that ensued, that may not be an unreasonable fear.  [...]

]]> By: Google Kansas Now On the Map http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239789 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:46:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239789 [...] are going to win and the country may have been put back on the path to economic recovery with a single gigabit-sized gauntlet thrown down by the town formerly known as Topeka. Photo Credit: [...]

]]> By: Google, le touche à tout … « Kapecom http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239788 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:20:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239788 [...] le monde, juste à quelques villes et villages peut-être car ce projet est expérimental. Il ne durera pas indéfiniment et il aurait pour but premier de faire bouger les FAI américains qui stagnent sur une distribution [...]

]]> By: Blandy Buchanan http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239787 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:49:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239787 Google doesn’t make cell phones. They make an OS for cell phones.

]]> By: Dane Jasper http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239786 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:27:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239786 Brett,

You seem to be missing the point about an open infrastructure. Independent ISPs should be cheered by efforts to build fiber that they are not locked out of. A model like Europe – where all carriers can share the common fiber plant, can’t be a bad thing (unless you are the incumbent who is not innovating today.)

-Dane J.

]]> By: SolidNode » Blog Archive » Roundup: Google’s Broadband Experiment http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239785 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:26:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239785 [...] home, and thus enabling 1gigabit per second connectivity to arrive faster. Stacey Higginbotham from GigaOm has additional details from Google’s product manager for alternative access Minnie Ingersol, [...]

]]> By: Brett Glass http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239784 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:22:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239784 Minnie, I and my fellow independent ISPs will fight your proposal to the death wherever it threatens to rear its ugly head. Your rapacious, corrosive, corrupting corporate monopoly has no right to harm hard working local businesses and the communities they serve. Be warned: we will oppose you, and we will WIN.

]]> By: Brett Glass http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239783 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:18:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239783 Mark, as usual your comments are disingenuous. I operate a small, independent, competitive, rural ISP: a true, hard working local business that creates jobs and serves my community. We have, and welcome, fair competition. But Google’s aim is to be anticompetitive. What Google wants to see is broadband as a monopoly municipal utility, run at a loss that is made up via taxpayer dollars, with all commercial ISPs dead and gone. This would be great for Google (because it has a powerful lobbying engine and could, via regulatory capture, set all the rules for the network — as it is now trying to do at the FCC). But it would be bad for consumers. There would be no choice of carriers, because the taxpayer-subsidized one would drive the ones that had to earn their keep out of business. And with the end of competition would come the end of innovation. Great for Google, bad for everyone else.

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-isp-it-wants-to-be-a-rabble-rouser/#comment-239782 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:09:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=98172#comment-239782 Because you work for a sleepy incumbent telco, Brett?

How exactly is introducing a new service anticompetitive?

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