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Google plans ultra-fast residential fibre broadband experiment
Stephen Withers
Thursday, 11 February 2010 07:47
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A few communities around the US will get 1Gbps fibre to the home (FTTH) Internet service as part of an experiment planned by Google.Dubbed Google Fiber for Communities, the fibre networks will deliver speeds of 1Gbps to participating homes at a "competitive" price.
1Gbps is fast enough to download a full-length high-definition movie in less than five minutes, Google officials explained.
Google's motivation is a desire to provide a testbed for applications that can take advantage of such speeds, and to experiment with ways of actually building and operating fibre networks.
Like Australia's NBN, Google proposes an open access regime for its fibre network, giving users a choice of service providers.
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