google broadband

christophicus

Ok Ive never heard of this but someone i know told me topday that google are bringing broadband to ireland,is this true in any way?

OfflerCrocGod

Who is this someone? I've not heard about it and I can't see a logical reason why they would want to try and enter the Irish Internet market.

Creamy Goodness

it's probably a bad case of chinese whispers.

they probably were talking about googletalk.

Chong

My sentiments exactly , a major case of BS.

jubbly

what a daft thread. not a chance amgio

christophicus

thats exactly what i was thinking,whats this google talk?is it voip?

JohnK

Its an IM client that supports voice chatting. See here: http://www.google.com/talk/

dahamsta

Actually the OP is right to some extent, in that there's been a rumour doing the rounds for months that Google has been looking into doing a wireless ISP. These rumours are usually generated by pathetic souls with nothing better to do with their time than watch Google's recruitment website. So when they take on operating system engineers they're going to release an OS that will compete with Windows, instead of maybe, just maybe, looking for people to tweak the custom operating systems they run on the hundreds of thousands of machines in their datacenters.

In other words it might be true, it might not, we won't know until they release a beta. However it seems unlikely. Very unlikely.

adam

aphex™

dahamsta wrote:

In other words it might be true, it might not, we won't know until they release a beta. However it seems unlikely. Very unlikely.

They bought a company that was setting up wireless access points around san francisco.

Fairly likely.

dahamsta

Weren't they just setting up hotspots though?

aphex™

dahamsta wrote:

Weren't they just setting up hotspots though?

Well get enough of them and you have an isp thats in every shopping mall or gas station.

StonedParadoX

aphex&#8482 wrote:

Well get enough of them and you have an isp thats in every shopping mall or gas station.

that'll be the future.. its gonna be hackers Paradise 10x over

degsie

aphex&#8482 wrote:

Well get enough of them and you have an isp thats in every shopping mall or gas station.

Or indeed shopping centers and petrol stations (we're not the 51st state yet, at least I hope not

aphex™

degsie wrote:

Or indeed shopping centers and petrol stations (we're not the 51st state yet, at least I hope not

No but they're starting it in the us- i was talking about the us- so i used the local lingo.

dahamsta

aphex&#8482 wrote:

Well get enough of them and you have an isp thats in every shopping mall or gas station.

You're going to go to a shopping mall or gas station every time you want to get on the Internet?

aphex™

dahamsta wrote:

You're going to go to a shopping mall or gas station every time you want to get on the Internet?

No, but while i'm there i'll go on google internet. My 2nd ISP. And while i'm there i'll check google maps for any nice restraunts in the area. Check out when the next movie is starting at the cinema accross the street. And while i'm looking at the showtimes on google i can see theres an ad (adwords) saying the cinema around the corner is doing a 2-for-1 seat deal. Brilliant.

You lack vision dahamsta!

dahamsta

Nah, I lack a laptop, so I couldn't give a crap about hotspots.

aphex™

dahamsta wrote:

Nah, I lack a laptop, so I couldn't give a crap about hotspots.

They'll have a kiosk you can use for free.

RobertFoster

degsie wrote:

Or indeed shopping centers and petrol stations (we're not the 51st state yet, at least I hope not

Or even shopping centres

aphex™

RobertFoster wrote:

Or even shopping centres

Can you spell get a life? :P

pablo321

There is reports from the US that they are buying up large amounts of dark fibre. They would then have a big backbone for the wireless networks they are planning.

Nothing about moving it to Europe though.

Pablo

dahamsta

pablo321 wrote:

There is reports from the US that they are buying up large amounts of dark fibre. They would then have a big backbone for the wireless networks they are planning.

Or the massive network they already run, at reduced cost. Sure, maybe they will roll out a wireless network, but what's the point in speculating about it? Go and blog about it somewhere.

adam