Google wants to make the third world cover wireless networks

In the construction and operation of wireless networks in the third world, Google has always had many efforts. Its plan is to connect one billion or more people to the Internet. According to informed sources, the construction of these wireless networks will benefit the rural population outside Africa, Southeast Asia, and countless large cities. At the same time, this will also help improve the quality of the urban network.

How?

At present, Google intends to cooperate with the communication and equipment suppliers of these emerging markets to build networks; they will also jointly develop business models that support these network operations. Although we are not sure whether Google has reached an agreement like this, a Google spokesman has not commented.

In some cases, Google's wireless network needs to use the band of television broadcasting, which requires the approval of the local government. The company has begun to coordinate current regulations with South Africa, Kenya and other places so that the wireless network can be opened on a large scale.

Google has also been working hard to build an ecosystem powered by new microprocessors, cheap smartphones and Android, which is part of its wireless "dominance." Other informed sources said that Google has built high-altitude steamships in some areas and can cover wireless signals hundreds of miles around. Of course, what they need is not just the band of television broadcasting. In addition, satellite-based network solutions are also under consideration by them.

"The network that Google wants to build has no cure for all kinds of diseases." An insider has expressed this, which means that it wants to do these solutions for different regions.

Why?

These moves by Google also infiltrated its growing ambitions to control the global network. The Mountian View-based company now makes its own mobile phones and tablets; Android is the world’s most mobile operating system; and the upcoming Google Glass is expected to transform the traditional computing model. Enabling more people to access the network means a larger group of potential users (search services, YouTube, GooglePlay...). Research shows that more than half of the world’s population does not use the Internet, and most of this is in developing countries. More users will further promote online advertising for Google’s many businesses. Of their $50 billion in annual revenue, 87% are from here.

Narayanan Shivakumar is a former Googler. He said that Google's expansion can gather more user behavior data to help them create more personalized services. Collecting data related to the user's network usage at the same time allows Google to operate the network in a cheaper manner, which traditional operators cannot do.

At the same time, the wireless network set up by oneself can allow Google to skip the current line companies and operators. For a long time, especially in the United States and Europe, those companies believed that Google had taken too much interest from their networks. Google naturally does not want such companies to pose a threat to their business for a long time.

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In mid-2011, Google had had in-depth negotiations with Clearwire (wireless operators) on purchasing bands or spectrum. But after that, Google took a big deal to buy Motorola, so the matter was not there at that time.

Last year, Google had in-depth contact with the Dish Network (satellite TV provider). They hoped to achieve cooperation on wireless services and may therefore compete directly with operators such as AT&T.

Google has also maintained its investment in network-related entrepreneurial fields. For example, O3b, O3b will launch several special satellites this year to support network operations in remote areas of several developing countries.

Google and Microsoft are in the usual sense of death. But next week they will hold a two-day meeting in Dakar to discuss with the government and the wireless industry's big brothers about the open broadcasting band for public use.

Google has repeatedly tried to support and build small-scale experiments. Most of these are public service projects, including the use of wireless networks in the United States to borrow television broadcast bands. Microsoft has similar attempts in Africa.

One of Google’s experiments was in Cape Town, South Africa. The project included base stations and wireless access points (or small boxes for receiving signals) that could establish signal connections within a few miles. These wireless access points were placed in 10 local primary and secondary schools, allowing thousands of students access to high-speed Internet access. This system is controlled by Google software and can automatically identify the currently vacant TV broadcasting band in this area. Arno Hart, the head of the local project, said that the project was put into use in February and was "very useful."

In an official Google blog last year, they stated that this technology is very suitable for providing cheap network services to remote areas with weak infrastructure, and it can also help expand wireless bandwidth in densely populated urban areas.