Lynne Kiesling
According to Slashdot, Google is buying up lots of unused fiber capacity and building a backbone from which it could build a wi-fi network, and is considering making access free. The Business 2.0 link here is a very informative article, containing a lot of information about the vertical transaction structure of the Internet.
This development is also interesting in the context of the Brand X and FCC DSL decisions lately. I’ve been doing some background reading so I can comment more intelligently on them, which I hope to do this week.