Is Google cable's next nightmare? No: the Internet search giant isn't about to set up the largest video-over-fiber network in the world. Not yet, anyway.(SPOTLIGHT: ANALYSIS)

Multichannel News, October, 2005 by Strassmann, Paul

Is Google a gigantic video-on-demand service in waiting, about to deliver infinite amounts of personally chosen programming across an intercontinental fiber network and with local wireless connections? You might think so, by reading recent coverage of the Internet search giant's seemingly limitless ambitions: * "...

Google Inc. plans to offer an electronic-payment service which allows consumers to pay for purchases by funding electronic-payment accounts." --The Wall Street Journal, 6/20/05 * "... A trail of hidden clues suggests Google is building its own Internet."--Business 2.0, 8/25/05 * "... Rumors are circulating that it aims to construct a nationwide fiber-optic network that could support free Wi-Fi access for all."--Network World,...

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