Google is building 'GoogleNet'

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Darth Garth

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Google is reviewing bids it solicited from tech vendors to build a national optical DWDM network capable of pushing massive amounts of voice, video and data very close to end users. Even more interesting is that the purported cost of this dynamic national fiber fabric is under $100 million (not including dark fiber) and can be launched within a matter of months. But the last-mile is, as always, the problem.

http://gigaom.com/2005/09/19/google-asks-for-googlenet-bids/
 
If ICASA want to see how things can be done if Telkom got its finger out of its bloated monopolistic hind area, they should look at Google move!

We have no clue how far behind we really are. We are being blindsided by the greed of a handful of people and left in the dust of a forward moving world.

Thans Telkom. Thanks so much. Thanks DoC! Thanks so much!

THANKS FOR NOTHING!

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Hmm... this is VERY interesting given the weekly subscription stuff I get on google... there were rumours (and a couple of predictions) about a week ago that google was looking into the telecoms etc market...

This is the latest one which is interesting:

WebProNews said:
Google's standard rule of not telling anybody anything until its too late has caused worldwide speculation as to what on Earth they plan to do with all that new money. A recent New York invitation-only meeting with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin did little to change that silent trend.

In fact, the information coming out of that meeting isn't exactly flowing, leading some to speculation that Schmidt and Brin exercised some version of the Jedi mind trick.

"There was a lot of talk about China," cloudily recalls Howard
Ward, a fund manager at Gabelli Funds LLC who attended the meeting
among 300 other analysts and investors.

But apparently that talk of China wasn't exactly explicit enough to
yield any concrete answers.

"They're pretty opaque. They don't give a lot of information,"
said (Benjamin Segal of Winchester Capital Group?**).

But it does appear to most that a portion of the proceeds from the
sale of over $4 billion in stock will be spent establishing a
stronger presence in the potential money well that is China.

David Schiller, a portfolio manager at JP Morgan Chase & Co., who
also attended the meeting but appears to have little to say,
reveals his guess for Google's next move.

"Best-case scenario is they want to buy a bunch of search companies
or online gaming companies in China," he said.

Equally as speculative about Google's next move in China, is
Google's next move in the United States, which involves lofty
notions of a free nation-wide ad-supported wireless network. One
wonders sometimes if Google's imagination is as good as those who
talk about them.

Google opened up a second offering of over 14 million Google shares
at $295 a share earlier this week-a price TheStreet.com's Jim
Cramer thinks is a steal as he expects stock prices to reach
$350.

"I believe Google can be bought here. There is a scarcity of
companies with high, organic growth in this market, and that is
why I expect Google to go up. Google is one of the few companies
out there with accelerating revenue growth, and at about 40 times
expected 2006 earnings, it is fairly priced given its strong
30%-plus growth rate," said Cramer.
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Vewwy, vewwy intewesting...
 
google have rolled out a free wifi secured network in san francisco I believe....this is a trial...I understand the idea is to get the whole of the USA hooked up to this wireless lan...

then, the smart money says they should launch a $30-$50 "device" (some of you may call it a phone) which will hook up to this network and make free calls. Additionally, as they would know your location, they could send target sensitive ads to you that are actually relevant, instead of the current billboard model where a huge poster is put up and they hope you drive past it....
 
I'm starting to wonder if maybe google never do anything by mistake. They've always kept everyone very much in the dark (see above article) and stuff is now starting to emerge.

Even Microsoft admitted that google were their only real competition...
 
AntiThesis said:
I'm starting to wonder if maybe google never do anything by mistake. They've always kept everyone very much in the dark (see above article) and stuff is now starting to emerge.

Even Microsoft admitted that google were their only real competition...
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To be honest. Knowing that Microsoft would crush me with tons of money were they to find out my plans to compete with them, I would be pretty cloak and dagger myself... :)
 
That's a valid point Antowan... but can you imagine the world wide outcry if M$ did crush google?
 
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