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Has anyone got any of the latest news on the Google Cable?

"Google definitely has a plan as it has conducted a feasibility study. What it wants are partners," a source says.

Another source says Google's motivation for building a cable is different from the traditional telecommunications operators' as it wants people to use the Internet as much as possible, because that is good for its overall business.

"Google wants people to pay as little as possible for access. In fact, they don't really care if it is totally free, because it is good for them in the long run," the source says.

...Brian Herlihy, Seacom president, says: "Seacom has held several commercial discussions with Google that are of a confidential nature."...

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page295027?oid=221522&sn=2009 Detail&pid=292671
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Doubt anything like this will happen in our lifetimes :( At least not in ZA, however promising it may seem...
 
What, so they can see EVERYTHING that we do on the internet, not just our GMail, google searches and rest of the stuff they can suck out of the stored cookies?

Sorry, but would rather pay for my internet tyvm.
 
More cable woes...Seems there will always be some reason for prices to remain higher than they need to...

http://www.voip-news.com/feature/google-cable-deal-022908/
Capacity on consortium cables can be cheaper for co-owners because they get it at cost. But it can come with a lot of complications, according to TeleGeography analyst Eric Schoonover. In particular, co-owners that need more capacity may have trouble getting it. They can buy it from other co-owners, or they can persuade the other members to add capacity to the cable. The latter would require installing equipment (at both ends) that sends additional data-bearing light frequencies through the optical fiber. But co-owners can be reluctant to make too much capacity available too cheaply, lest it lower the value of their investment. "There's a question as to how aggressive they'll be in driving down prices," said Schoonover.
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and we get happy in SA about 1.2Tbps... :)
According to TeleGeography, active trans-Pacific cable capacity was 3.28 Tbps at the end of 2007.The research firm projects that by 2013, demand will reach 15 Tbps, due to the growth of every sort of Internet application, particularly the streaming type. But the total future capacity available on existing and planned cables — including Unity — will be more than 36 Tbps, TeleGeography projects.
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Come Google! Come to SA!!! :)

http://www.voip-news.com/feature/google-trans-pacific-cable-100407/
If Google and its partners build the cable, the Internet company will get capacity at cost. It could also offer (or threaten) to sell capacity to others at or near cost. That would force the existing cable operators to drop their prices, benefiting everyone except the operators. (An added bonus would be that Unity would compete with a planned cable that Verizon, Google's deadly enemy in the Net neutrality battle, will participate in.)
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NET NEUTRALITY? Yep, you are raped in many ways...
http://www.voip-news.com/news/net-neutrality-debate/
The idea behind network neutrality is that all data should be treated with the same priority, as it has always been, and that users should have a guarantee of "best effort" data transfer. Until recently all data has been routed with relatively equal priority, applications such as VoIP, video, file sharing and email have all had equal treatment. The issue started to heat up recently over suspicions about whether or not telephone companies, who own the actual lines that the data is routed through, are prioritizing their bandwidth for financial gain.

The implications for such prioritization, or "traffic shaping," could be quite disruptive to the current order of things online. This type of favoritism deliberately tilts the playing field of the market in favor of whoever the telephone companies choose. A telephone company creating its own VoIP service, in direct competition with web based services like Vonage and Skype, could selectively direct information to speed up their own service, while keeping the competitors at the same level. Although deliberately slowing the connection of a competitor is illegal for good reason, giving priority to your own connection is not, and therein lies the rub. Also referred to as a "two-tiered Internet," data prioritization is rumored to be taking place already.
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