Googling is upping the stakes with its construction of yet more infrastructure to bypass the existing carriers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/google_undersea_cable_two/In September, when we reported that Google was preparing to drag a multi-terabit communications cable under the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest search engine acted like it didn't know what we were talking about. But yesterday, with a post to The Official Google Blog, network acquisitions manager Francois Sterin finally acknowledged his company was just being coy.
Working in tandem with five Far Eastern comms companies, Google will stretch a $300m undersea cable from the US to Japan. "As more and more people conduct online searches and interact with applications like Gmail, Google Earth, and YouTube, we've had to think outside the box to create a more scalable, affordable, and easy to manage network that meets our users' needs worldwide," Sterin wrote
What he really means is that the traditional players are charging Google far too much for bandwidth, so Google has decided to cut them out of the equation
As long as the guy in the street isn't penalised by this in terms of increased service charges I don't think we need have any concerns whether google creates a whole new internet or just wants a few options for the future, there is after all no credit card login when using googles services.
