Already the Google-as-ISP meme has pervaded the technology world, but I dont think Google is in this to be a traditional ISP. Rather, it wants to build out a fiber-to-the-home network to show the U.S. the future of communications a far more frightening prospect for existing ISPs, and one that has big implications for entrepreneurs and consumers.
I wrote late last year about the future of communications in an all-IP world and noted that even the Federal Communications Commission is preparing for that day. Google clearly is as well, as we can see from products like Google Voice and its cloud efforts.
To figure out why Google has declared war on the existing communications network with this plan, I chatted with Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager for alternative access at Google. Her group works on such issues as white spaces broadband, spectrum auctions and Googles filings with the FCC related to the National Broadband plan.
