Until recently high speed Internet connections in the United States were available only through a handful of service providers. The majority of these service providers either wholly or partially operate under the thumb of telecom giants AT&T and Verizon. With Google’s announcement to enter the ultra speed broadband domain, its time to say “goodbye” to the era of U.S broadband monopoly.
Google plans to set up an elaborate fiber-optic network spread across most of its northern and north eastern states specially bordering the east coast line, offering lightening fast Internet speed of up to 1Gbps to an approximate 500,000 U.S homes by the year end. According to a top industry source, Google’s “Ultra-speed” broadband Internet is expected to compete on price with rivals Verizon and AT & T.
"We are planning to build and test an ultra-speed Broadband Internet framework in a small number of trial locations across the United States," the official Google Blog quoted recently “We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today," it continued.
The cyber giant already boasts an extensive Fiber-optic network which doubles up the search by connecting it to its data centers, and thereby lowers the expense of streaming video on the hugely popular You Tube.
Now, Google plans to take it up to the next level and connect its extensive broadband network directly to the consumers' homes. The new offer from Google is part of its expansion plan to control an all-round web user's experience.
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