After Google shifted its focus from fibre to wireless following a tricky time of things, AT&T couldn’t resist taking a juvenile swipe at the OTT-come-telecoms provider. Telecoms.com’s Tim Skinner reports. Continue reading AT&T attacks Google over fibre
We caught up with Mauro de Filho, Strategy Director at Google X to find out a bit more about its exciting new venture, Project Loon.
Despite the hefty costs associated with FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) deployment, network operators worldwide have made the business case and are now serving their customers with ultrafast, gigabit speeds.
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Earlier this week Google announced that it would be purchasing Nest for $3.2 billion. Even for Google that’s a significant sum of money – well OK, maybe not for Google – but it’s enough for anyone else to take note. Continue reading Google dollars push IoT into the spotlight
Earlier this year Google announced ‘Project Loon’. This, in case you missed it, is Google’s ‘crazy’ plan for bringing Internet access to the billions of people that don’t have it yet – using balloons. Continue reading Google Project Loon: Method in the Madness
Recently the idea was mooted of having the centre of London shut itself down to have the likes of Lewis Hamilton racing round its streets in a Formula One race. That would be seriously cool. It would also be seriously cool if we had data carried on superfast fibre optics flying all round the UK capital. I mention this as earlier this week Google released a rather dramatic teaser webpage for its Google Fiber city project, which it says will be switched on 26 July. (The event is clearly so important that it actually contains a link to itself. A … Continue reading Google Fiber is coming: the world is watching
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