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

Yes, but verbing wierds language.

[DFJA]

(with credit to Calvin and Hobbes).

Re:Yes, but verbing wierds language.

[TeknoHog]

Not to mention that "wierd" weirds "weird".

Re:Yes, but verbing wierds language.

[JasterBobaMereel]

The quote is "Verbing weirds language" - Calvin and Hobbes

Conservatives

[Gonoff]

For the benefit of people in the US, let me tell them a few things about the UK Conservative party.

The UK Conservative party is so far right that it has difficulty in finding allies in other European countries.The only groups available are banned because of Godwins Law. They are, however quite able to deal with US all mainstream parties.

There is sometimes a perception that better educated and technically aware individuals do not vote for them much. I certainly don't. I don't know if that is true but it may be part of the reason for this story. They want to persuade us to forget about having a fair society so that we can have better broadband speed. I would rather have a modem!