Google Lynched!
On the surface, it looked liked a regular breaking news for Commsday about Google’s plans to lay “new Pacific “Unity” undersea cable” last Friday.
However, the story became one of the rare Australian articles to have made it to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Slashdot and other popular tech blogs in a single day.
From Commsday:
“However, Communications Day understands that Unity would see Google join with other carriers to build a new multi-terabit cable,” wrote Grahame Lynch.
“Google would get access to a fibre pair at build cost handing it a tremendous cost advantage over rivals such as MSN and Yahoo, and also potentially enabling it to peer with Asia ISPs behind their international gateways - considerably improving the affordability of Internet services across Asia Pacific.”
From Google News, there were up to 29 results highlighting the story, not forgetting the mention of this blog’s email to CNET’s Buzz Out Loud.
Google Planning New Undersea Cable Across Pacific?
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tregetour writes “Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day reports: …
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Google in Talks With Group Over High-Speed Pacific Cable |
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Rumor Control: Google Laying Pacific Cable? |
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Has Google Plans to Lay a Pacific Cable? |
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Google Prospects Pacific Ocean for Unity Broadband |
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Google (GOOG) laying new Pacific cable, bidding on UK frequencies |
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Google May Lay Undersea Cable |
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Google looking to lay ‘Unity’ cable across Pacific: report |
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Google Ready To Lay Some Pipe |
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Seeking New Arenas to Conquer, Google Eyes the Oceans |
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Google plans undersea “Unity” cable across Pacific? |
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GoogleNET Going Global |
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Google in talks with group over undersea cable: report |
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Google Goes Underground For Next Lot Of Profits |
Google Shoots Down Reports Of Grand Telecom Ambitions
Information Week Weblog, NY -
It is unlikely that Google wants anything to do with selling increasingly commoditized connectivity. Quite simply, it’s not a very appealing business to be …
