Google Fires Off Warning to US Telcos

mytrip writes "The US Senate Commerce Committee last week approved reforms in communications legislation that will make it easier for Internet providers to offer IP-based television. The resultant perceived threat of telecommunications companies muscling in on the Web has stirred search giant Google into firing off warnings. A spokesman said it would not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints if Internet-providing telcos abuse powers that could come from U.S. legislators in further reforms - some of which, Google argues, could threaten 'Net Neutrality'.

So that's what $425 a share buys

[SlappyBastard]

Pretty badass. Can we get the EFF to go public, too?

Obligatory Ballmer joke

[martinultima]

BALLMER: We're going to fucking kill Google!!
GOOGLE: We're going to fucking kill giant telcos!!
(both start throwing chairs; chaos ensues)

Meh ... misleading headline

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I thought they were going to carpet bomb the telcos from the Google plane

Sending my internets

[just_forget_it]

As long as they don't interfere with me sending an internet, more power to 'em.

pretty unfair...

[aleksiel]

google is just just trying to keep their monopoly on the internets tubes. imho, they're being pretty greedy and its hurting the consumers. i mean, come on! it took me 5 days for the internets to download at my office!

Re:Sending my internets

[general scruff]

Yeah, I hear that google has been buying up "Dark Tubes" as they are called, by the handful! With all that power, you could sent 2 or 3 internets an hour!

Re:Chicken and egg and chicken and egg and

[mgblst]

PS. Lumpy, get your lego set out, there is a bridge needing a building.

The litigation will be gruesome.

[postbigbang]

Google Inc vs Verizon, AT&T, QWest, et al

Dateline San Jose CA July 5, 2011: The Google anti-trust ligitation now in its fifth year, may now come to a conclusion says Pamela Jonesish, chief blogger of CommLaw, the site that's tracking the litigation surrounding anti-trust and the old concept of 'net-neutrality'.

"Who would have ever believed that these nutcases could have gotten this far" said Pamela, also known as PJ-ish. "When HD-IPTV finally clogged the pipes to the point where nothing could get through, even ICMP, we all knew the jig was up. Now that Verizon is in Chapter 11 and AT&T has merged with the remaining remnants of the 'baby bells', market leader Comcast-Time Warner believes that the Google litigation should end"....

Telcos aren't worried

[bberens]

Google Sue(tm) will be in BETA for at least there years.

Re:So, this affects who exactly?

[joeyspqr]

So how does this play out over the international scale?

business decisions made with an eye to buying legislation and litigation choke off economic innovation . India and China become the loci of future IT developements. Europe muddles along like it has for the past 60 years, and we enjoy the great shakeout as gas prices rise to real levels and the loans come due.

sure feels like monday