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Google Planning New Undersea Cable Across Pacific?
tregetour writes "Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day reports: 'Google would not strictly confirm or deny the existence of the Unity plan today, with spokesman Barry Schnitt telling our North American correspondent Patrick Neighly that "Additional infrastructure for the Internet is good for users and there are a number of proposals to add a Pacific submarine cable. We're not commenting on any of these plans." However, Communications Day understands that Unity would see Google join with other carriers to build a new multi-terabit cable. Google would get access to a fibre pair at build cost handing it a tremendous cost advantage over rivals such as MSN and Yahoo, and also potentially enabling it to peer with Asia ISPs behind their international gateways — considerably improving the affordability of Internet services across Asia Pacific.'"
"Tap it"? Why would the NSA have to "tap it"?
Oh, wait... you still think that Google is some kind of independent tie-wearing, reserved-parking-space, Tuesday-is-Baked-Ziti-Day-in-the-Cafeteria corporate entity? You don't in the least bit suspect that they're a beard for all the domestic spying and privacy-wresting activity that your typical geek would be screaming about if it weren't for the fact that the perpetrator was a golden era dot.com foosball-flicking start-up?
"I don't mind if you spy on me, just do it in a way that consumes less energy than NASCAR." Is that your mantra, Bunky?
Hey, I'd love to stay and chat, but someone is knocking on my door...