Despite the consumers' low enthusiasm over "Google Fiber," Google is still confident that it can enhance its technology to achieve its central mission of connecting people to an ultrafast and abundant Internet data.
It has been announced last month by Access CEO Craig Barratt, division in charge over "Google Fiber," that the tech giant will temporarily stop the operations of Google Fiber.
"We're going to pause our operations and offices while we refine our approaches," Barratt wrote on a blog post at Google Fiber. This announcement is in lieu of his resignation as the division's CEO. Although many were shocked by this action, it is a given fact that "Google Fiber" have been laying off its employees over the last few months.
According to Top Tech News, CEO of Alphabet Larry Page, Google's parent company, has ordered Barratt to cut off the workforce of "Google Fiber" considering its significantly low number of subscriptions.'
Barratt, on the other hand, further wrote, "It entails us ["Google Fiber"] making changes to focus our business and product strategy. Importantly, the plan enhances our focus on new technology and deployment methods to make superfast Internet more abundant than it is today."
Following this, Google reportedly submitted a request to the Federal Communications Commission in order to test an experimental wireless broadband service in cities across America.
As per Sandiego Union-Tribune, this wireless technology can deliver gigabit data rates but within short distances but it is less expensive comparative to the fiber optic lines that "Google Fiber" is currently using.
Although some are skeptical over the wireless technology expansion of "Google Fiber" considering the technology's viability and tedious developmental and legal processes, recent improvements in antenna technology and beam formatting techniques can turn the table around. It might not be long before "Google Fiber" can adopt a wireless Internet service.
As further reported, these improvements steer high frequency airwaves that the tech community earmarked as integral part for the upcoming gigabit class 5G cellular networks. With these technologies, it would only take a minute or even less to download an entire digital movie.
Whereas this sounds as the Internet data access that consumers are dreaming of, Google is on its way to make this dream a reality. Time, however, is yet to tell its success. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!
