TOP ANALYST PRAISES GOOGLE FIBER

BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield has enthusiastically praised Google Fiber’s roll-out test in the two Kansas Cities, predicting that the super high-speed service will “accelerate rapidly, changing consumer habits.” In a message to clients, Greenfield wrote today (Wednesday) that the downside for the broadcast networks is that it will also result in splintering the traditional audience […]

GOOGLE: IT WON’T LOOK LIKE KANSAS CABLE ANYMORE, TOTO

Google is getting into the cable-TV business. Today’s (Thursday) Wall Street Journal reports that the Internet giant is set to hook up homes in Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS with fiber-optic cable to deliver cable-TV combined with Internet connections 100 times faster than what is offered by most Internet service providers today. According […]