“Google is planning to offer mobile phone service in coming months, but the limited scale effort won’t be designed to compete with the big carriers,” Aaron Pressman reports for Yahoo Finance.
“Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products, on Monday confirmed rumors that Google wanted to resell mobile service, becoming what’s known as a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO,” Pressman reports. ” Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Pichai compared the effort to the company’s limited Nexus-branded smartphone sales. ‘We want to be able to experiment along those lines, that’s the concept,’ he said. ‘We don’t intend to be a network operator at scale.'”
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Total Information Awareness. That is Google’s telos. In their ideal future they monitor every pipe, see every datapoint, understand all connections between all things and all people. This little experiment lets them visualize that world, so they can intelligently build toward that goal. Be very afraid.
Persons of interest .. The Machine !
It sounds crazy. Like just about everything we take for granted in information technology did 20 years ago.
Verizon is selling off it’s wireline businesses in Florida, California & Texas to Frontier. Too bad Google didn’t pick them up instead.
So are Google claiming that the limited sales of Nexus smart phones is deliberate?
It’s long been known that all google fiber circuits terminate at NSA HQ. Likewise on google mobile, NSA will be the wireless carrier. It simply cuts out the middleman.
iHating Fandroids will love this.
Probably. I’ll bet that a lot of them would stand in line to sign up for Google MVNO beta service and serve as the guinea pigs.
Google wants to “experiment.” Google MVNO beta?
More like “Google to launch network for getting people’s info even easier.
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