Technomaly

Google’s quest to become the swiss army knife of technology added a new blade on Wednesday – an announcement of a new push to bring lightning fast broadband to homes around the country.

Their fiber optic service would bring gigabyte per second broadband to users at “competitive prices” with a user target of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.

Why’s Google entering the ISP game? Simple, really – a faster internet means a better Google. Between Google’s ever growing army of cloud apps and continued technological reliance in the fields of education, business and health, we’re going to need a faster internet. Soon.

Google will be using an “open access model,” which means they’ll come into a community and sell fiber optic access to the local ISPs at wholesale prices, who’ll then distribute it to consumers at retail.

So how do you get your hands on Google’s super-speedy internet fiber? In a very Google move, they’re not going where they’re not asked – your town has to nominate itself for Google to consider running its network there, either through the town government itself or the town’s residents. So if you’re interested, get cracking!

Source: PC World

Image Source: Google