FCC announced National Broadband Plan, setting goals for expanding broadband to unserved and under-served areas, promote greater speed, and drive consumer demands
NATIONAL BROADBAND GOALSGoogle is taking aggressively to support this plan, getting ready to step into the market.
Goal 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second.
Goal 2: The United States should lead the world in mobile innovation, with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.
Goal 3: Every American should have affordable access to robust broadband service, and the means and skills to subscribe if they so choose.
Goal 4: Every community should have affordable access to at least 1 Gbps broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals and government buildings.
Goal 5: To ensure the safety of Americans, every first responder should have access to a nationwide public safety wireless network.
Goal 6: To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.
The National Broadband Plan: Connecting America
Google's core business is predicated upon the availability of richer and richer content on the net. If they can ensure that all the traffic that people want can be carried, they win; if they can't, if the carriers mediate what can and can't be carried, they lose. But Google Fiber ensures that our future networks will indeed be able to "route around damage", and makes what the other carriers do irrelevant. Google Fiber essentially tells the carriers "If you don't build the network we need, we will; you will either move with the times, or you won't survive."
Here is what's in Google's mind:
Our goal is to experiment with new ways to help make Internet access better, and faster for everyone. Here are some specific things that we have in mind:
- Next generation apps: We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra high-speeds, whether it's creating new bandwidth-intensive "killer apps" and services, or other uses we can't yet imagine.
- New deployment techniques: We'll test new ways to build fiber networks; to help inform, and support deployments elsewhere, we'll share key lessons learned with the world.
- Openness and choice: We'll operate an "open access" network, giving users the choice of multiple service providers. And consistent with our past advocacy, we'll manage our network in an open, non-discriminatory, and transparent way.
What I like about Google is that they are always looking for the best resources available to make their services better; and if they can't find it, they build it.
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