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Cornered! Are Google's telecoms aspirations growing?
Cornered! Are Google's telecoms aspirations growing? | Are Google's telecoms aspirations growing? |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Saturday, 22 September 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 That may not be the case for submarine cable capacity. In the late 90s there was a huge boom in the industry with massive networks installed but under-utilised. This was followed by the inevitable bust which saw billions of investment lost and the installed cables sold for a song, to Chinese and Indian companies. Now its boom time again: these networks are being expanded and new ones built. For the time being at least, it's a sellers market. Featured Whitepaper
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If Google believes it can get a sustainable cost advantage by investing in a network, it may well do so. But there are a number of other new systems planned already. Technology advances rapidly. It seems more than likely that Google will be best able to meet its needs by relying on a healthy market with strong competition and investing its money in businesses that are centred around content and services and in which it can leverage its intellectual property and its massive access to end users, not raw connectivity.{moscomment} |
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