Google postponing its ISP ambition?
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To fuel the buzz surrounding Google and its recent Checkout service, Alex Lightman, CEO of Innofone, a business VoIP phone vendor, lately claimed: “This is why Google bought mobile dark fiber. It’s to go out and go: ‘All these bozos in America aren’t rolling out IPv6, so we’ll do it if they aren’t going to.’”
Lightman said that Google hired Vint Cerf as vice president and “chief Internet evangelist” in order to lead the company’s IPv6 strategy, still according to an eWeek write-up.
A possible scenario: If I access a Google muni free WiFi hotspot, I would log me into my account, and watch Google videos a faster rate than if I logged from an AOL account. Of course, I accept the bunch of ads that will appear on my screen.
Wired digged up the story but faced a no-no stance from Google: “Google has no current plans to be an internet service provider outside of our pilot Wi-Fi projects in Mountain View and San Francisco,” said a Google spokesman.
Google would have big reasons to keep doing it. One of the reason we see is to provide a backbone to all the Google toolkit. But the last rejection of Net Neutrality by a US Senate panel might have chilled the project.
Jul 1, 2006 | By Nuno
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