“Google starts tv service via fiber in Kansas City

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Google Fiber, a subsidiary of internetgigant Google, has the FCC approval asked for a video service in Kansas City to begin. Google Fiber would this service we want to offer through 1 gb fiber optic network in the city.

Previously, it was suggested that Google was planning to, in addition to internet access, also iptv services through its fibre optic network, but The Wall Street Journal, this has now been confirmed on the basis of an approval request from Google to the FCC.

Also quotes the newspaper an anonymous media executive, who is engaged in licentiegesprekken with Google. According to this person would be the tv service within a few months of start. Google made the beginning of February, is known to have begun with the construction of the fiber network. According to the list of frequently asked questions on the site of Google’s Fiber network is already in the first quarter of 2012, assuming at the end of 2011 for the start of the laying of the first fibre-optic cable.

With the expected roll out of its tv service over fibre networks in Kansas City, Missouri would Google directly compete with cable and satellite companies. Also the iptv services from telcos like AT&T and Verizon are among the competitors expected.