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Is Google Planning To Fibre Britain?

Posted by timothy on from the you're-fibred! dept.

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."

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  1. fuck off, Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You still haven't delivered the algorithms you promised to open 12 years ago. Your top executives believe that no-one online is entitled to privacy (unless he is a top Google exec, who will deny press information to journalists who publish information about him). You require NSA clearance for any significant technical positions.

    Only an idiot today would think you "do no evil". You're just like any nasty group in its early years - start off promising the world, slowly reneging on promises which matter, and one by one revealing your true intentions. You give people the sense of security they'll so easily swallow until it's too late to clamour for alternatives.

    We don't want you in the UK. BT is a heap of steaming shit, but at least their gross incompetence limits their ability to cooperate effectively with the Crown Estate of Mandelson.

    1. Re:fuck off, Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You still haven't delivered the algorithms you promised to open 12 years ago.

      Which algorithms and promises were those ? (honest question).

      Your top executives believe that no-one online is entitled to privacy (unless he is a top Google exec, who will deny press information to journalists who publish information about him).

      No, he said that if you do something and get it on record, there's a chance a law enforcement agency will request said record with a judge signature on top and Google (or whatever company they're requesting it to) will have to comply.

      You require NSA clearance for any significant technical positions.

      Care to point an example of this ?

      Bla, bla, bla...

  2. Language abuse by TrumpetPower! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please stop verbing nouns.

    That corporate whores enjoy fucking with language is no good reason for us to bend over and spread ’em.

    Cheers,

    b&

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    All but God can prove this sentence true.