Google Confirms Plan to Offer Wireless Service

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Google Confirms Plan to Offer Wireless Service
Search engine’s entry into U.S. wireless market likely to affect four national carriers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-confirms-plan-to-offer-wireless-service-1425308552

Google Inc. said it plans to launch a U.S. wireless service, raising a new risk of tension between the Internet company and the wireless carriers that support its Android mobile-operating system.

The service would be small-scale and not intended to compete with the four big U.S. national carriers, Sundar Pichai, the Google executive who oversees Android, told an industry conference in Barcelona. Instead, it would be intended to demonstrate technical innovations that carriers could adopt.

However small Google’s entry, the move by the creative and well-capitalized technology company is likely to send ripples through a business long controlled by Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. It is a strong signal that Google’s ambitions extend beyond selling advertising and services over the Internet to influencing how Internet access is delivered.

“You will see us announce it in the coming months,” Mr. Pichai said. “Our goal here is to drive a set of innovations which we think the system should adopt.”


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[Jello Biafra]

Google Inc. said it plans to launch a U.S. wireless service, raising a new risk of tension between the Internet company and the wireless carriers that support its Android mobile-operating system.

The service would be small-scale and not intended to compete with the four big U.S. national carriers, Sundar Pichai, the Google executive who oversees Android, told an industry conference in Barcelona. Instead, it would be intended to demonstrate technical innovations that carriers could adopt.

Google knows damn well they plan on competing with the telecom companies in due time so they should be scared. I hope Google crushes them.

 

[hashmander]

like they are going catch feelings and dump android. google played it brilliantly, android is ubiquitous now. are these carriers going to force phone makers to switch to ubuntu touch or firefox os?

 

[tmonster]

like they are going catch feelings and dump android. google played it brilliantly, android is ubiquitous now. are these carriers going to force phone makers to switch to ubuntu touch or firefox os?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I have been waiting on this

This needs to happen yesterday..

We are getting the sausage from all of these companies..

We need an alternative to bring these prices down..

 

[theworldismine13]

they are will be an mvno, they are just renting lines like cricket or virgin, what will be different about them?