Google to invest in undersea cable to Asia
Faster than a speeding
Telco.
Google will help build a $300 million undersea cable system with
five other companies, becoming the only online search operator with its own
network…
The 10,000 kilometer network would link Chikura, in Japan, to Los Angeles, according to a statement from Singapore Telecom, one of the five companies. The project is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2010, the statement said…
The network could help Google, owner of the most-popular Internet search engine, increase its edge over Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN.com by raising Web connection speeds out of Asia, where response times lag behind the average…
Now, why didn’t I think of that?
Or, more to the point - why didn’t Microsoft? Or AT&T?
The 10,000 kilometer network would link Chikura, in Japan, to Los Angeles, according to a statement from Singapore Telecom, one of the five companies. The project is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2010, the statement said…
The network could help Google, owner of the most-popular Internet search engine, increase its edge over Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN.com by raising Web connection speeds out of Asia, where response times lag behind the average…
Now, why didn’t I think of that?
Or, more to the point - why didn’t Microsoft? Or AT&T?
Posted: Wed - February 27, 2008 at 07:57 AM