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the day the fcc convinced google to become an ISP : Dec. 29, 2006

so it appears that after seeing some concessions from at&t the fcc approved the at&t/sbc merger which will create a communications monolith that will control almost half of all telephone land lines in the United States. naturally, it's a big deal that has a lot of people talking. while there are some optimistic interpretations of the of the effects of the net neutrality provisions in the concessions for the most part folks are skeptical primarily because at&t's IPTV network is exempted from the neutrality provision and the DSL wireline access service that is governed by the provisions is only covered at speeds �up to� 768Kbps up and (presumably) 128Kbps down, which is barely better than dial-up and almost useless for VoIP and video.

in june google stated that it has no current plans to be an internet service provider [ emphasis mine ] but one has to wonder if goog is rethinking that decision now that it has 3 video properties and big plans for google talk. it's interesting to note that google doesn't seems to be doing just fine without peering any traffic with at&t.

maybe john dvorak was right all along:

"First, Google, the king of doing good work inexpensively, now has a cookie-cutter model on how to light up a city. Google's software engineers have the architecture. They know the problems. They know the costs. In fact, this initial model will inevitably be tweaked to be cheaper and more efficient in future rollouts. Combine this new knowledge with information developed in towns where other companies have done municipal Wi-Fi and you'll have a lot of people looking at this idea. If the spreadsheets show that they can beat the cable and telco companies at their own game, then expect a deluge of activity."

"This expansion of services is entirely possible and doable. And it all stems from the phone companies and cable companies arrogantly shooting off their collective mouths about tiered services, along with their cavalier failure to give the American public what it needs�universal and cheap high-speed access."

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