Is Google Planning To Fibre Britain?

Barence writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Google has emerged as a surprise contender to invest in Britain's fibre broadband network. The search giant yesterday announced plans to build a gigabit fibre broadband network in the US. The test network will see Google deliver fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connections to up to half a million US homes. The move raises the possibility that Google is behind the Conservative Party's ambitious plans to deliver nationwide 100Mbits/sec connections by 2017. Parliamentary sources have told PC Pro that the Tories' plans were based on foreign investment in the UK broadband network."

They've tried this before

[crimperman]

Google have tried network infrastructure before - they even made it free to use: http://www.google.com/tisp/ [google.com]

Re:Is Google Planning To Fibre Britain?

[Joce640k]

Came here to see an American complain about spelling/grammar and am leaving satisfied.

Re:all your base are belong to us

[benz001]

.....To many fingers in to many pies. We are meant to use a Google Thin Client, to access Google Services, over Google Fibre....

Which is looking more and more like their undoing - like all big companies they start off well then spread themselves too thin. Search is great, Analytics is good, Gmail is ok, Docs is still just docs, Wave is just a ripple, Buzz is seriously lacking anything like caffeine and gears has lost a sprocket.

Re:It Depends...

[Ed Avis]

Potentially access the interner via a Goggle ISP, accessing Google DNS, using Google search, communicating via Google email, using Goole chat and Google Buzz with my friends.

Fear not, you won't be forced to use Google Spellcheck if you don't want to.

Re:What is the verb then?

[Spad]

There isn't one, any more than there is a verb for Wednesday.

Good Luck Finding a Sympathetic Ear Here

[RobotRunAmok]

This is the industry that twisted "architect" into a verb. Presumably "build" or "code" weren't pompous enough.

NZ Slashdotted

[footnmouth]

My old company had an offshore dev team in New Zealand and one morning (in 2004) I came into work to find that they couldn't access our UK based SVN server. While discussing it I browsed onto Slashdot and found a link to an article hosted in NZ (I think it was the guy who built his own jet engines and claimed he could build a Tomahawk cruise missile equivalent for 75k).

Anyway, it turned out that the Slashdot effect didn't bring down the server, it brought down NZ's pipe to the outside wall.

I for one welcomed our new nerd overlords.