By giving away 1Gbps Fiber internet to about 500-thousands lucky Americans, Google is only one step away from becoming Skynet. Great.
In all seriousness, they are planning to become an ISP by providing Fiber connectivity at competitive prices. Theoritically, this will lay the foundation of next generation bandwidth speed and internet development, according to Google; which will pave the way into high speed connectivity to the rest of the world.
But seriously… 1Giga bit per second? Holy %^!$, I wish I live in America…. video and link below
Update: Apparently the news got caught up by CBC as well. As shown in this article: CBC article.
Although I found a disturbing fact on that article; quoted:
Google likely has dark fibre in Canada to serve its capacity needs here, but any attempt to provide telecommunications services would run into legal problems. Restrictions require any infrastructure-owning telecom service provider to be majority Canadian owned and controlled.
Damn you Robbers, Bhell, and Failus!
