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."

Comments

They've tried this before

[crimperman]

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

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.

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.