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Google To Experiment Fiber Network For Providing High Speed Internet In US

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Google Turns ISP

Google has revealed its plans to setup and test ultra high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the United States.

Google’s fiber-to-the-home connection could offer ultra high speed data transfer up to 1Gbps, 100 times faster than the average access speeds that the Americans currently have.

Initially the service would be offered on a test basis at a competitive price to 50,000 to 500,000 people across the US.

Google will keep collecting responses from various communities over this project till March 26, 2010 and will announce the implementation details of this fiber networking project.

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Google has listed the following three things as their goals that they are aiming through this project:

  • Next generation apps: Enabling developers to develop bandwidth-intensive killer apps
  • New deployment techniques: Testing new ways to build fiber networks
  • Openness and choice : Operating an “open access” network and let the users have the choice of multiple service providers

I’m jealous of the lucky US people who manage to get Google fiber-to-the-home connection.When India is still struggling with the implementation of 3G services to offer Mbps speeds, Google is thinking of Gbps :(.

[To keep up with 3G rollout in India here’s the latest info: Well, TRAI is considering 4G as well, good news]

What are you planning to doo with a 1Gbps internet connection at home? leave comments..

BSNL Prepaid Broadband Plans

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We do know about many prepaid usage in case of mobiles, but never heard of prepaid Broadband, right?

BSNL, becomes the first broadband company in India to launch prepaid Broadband in India.Even though their prices seem to be a little costlier, they are worth the price if you are going to a place for a temporary stay where you don’t afford to get a new BB connection with all those installation charges etc. Just get a ADSL modem from one of your friends and of course you have to pay onetime installation charge of 250 Rs.).

I just went through BSNL Prepaid Broadband page and here I’m quoting the price table for unlimited usage packs.

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Unlimited download/upload Plan vouchers :

Speed

Validity in Days for different Recharge Vouchers

BB R_UL 300 Voucher (*MRP Rs. 300)
BB R_UL 550 Voucher (*MRP Rs. 550)
BB R_UL 900 Voucher (*MRP Rs. 900)
BB R_UL 1200 Voucher (*MRP Rs. 1200)

256 Kbps

7-days

15-days

30-days

N/A

Upto 512 Kbps

N/A

7-days

15-days

30-days

Upto 1 Mbps

N/A

N/A

7-days

15-days

Upto 2 Mbps

N/A

N/A

N/A

7-days

May be it’s time for all other ISPs to think in this direction to provide such prepaid broadband plans to their users.

BSNL initially may have started this service in some parts of the country, I heard they’d soon (by this month end?) be extending this to all over India.

For more details, visit BSNL Prepaid Broadband

The Pirate Bay Founders Jailed and Fined for Copyright breaking

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In what could be a one of the rare cases of Copy-right violation, today a court in Sweden has jailed the four main people behind the Internet’s most popular BitTorrent File-Sharing site (With an estimated 22 million users),  The Pirate Bay.

Each of the four defendants behind the Pirate Bay Site, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were each sentenced to a year in jail.They were also ordered to pay a huge amount of $3.6 million as a penalty for damage to major entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures.

But the Pirate Bay founders however denied the charges against them citing that they didn’t actually hosted any files.And also posted a notice and a video in response to the court’s verdict in the Pirate Bay site

So, the dice courts judgement is here. It was lol to read and hear, crazy verdict.But as in all good movies, the heroes lose in the beginning but have an epic victory in the end anyhow. That’s the only thing Hollywood ever taught us.

And talking about the large penalty that the court has ordered, This is what one the 4 founders of Pirate Bay had to say:

“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes.”

While Many Copyright holders around the world are cheering this Pirate Bay verdict, others feel that it may not affect the popular file-sharing over the internet.But it certainly a alarming notice to the other famous file-sharing sites like Rapidshare and other Bit-Torrent sites.