Androids Everywhere in Google Telco Invasion
December 14, 2009
Yep, I recall my partner from a consulting firm in a tony part of Seattle making the rounds of telecommunications companies in 2006. The presentation was “Google Telephone & Telegraph”. The presentation included some whimsy; for example, an antenna and transceiver that could be put in a pizza deliver vehicle to the serious; for example, the use of a non-intuitive method of finding a low latency path through a cellular network. The presentation also took a look at a half dozen of the Google patent documents that disclosed everything from support of double byte queries for mobile search to Sergey Brin’s voice search invention to the use of semi autonomous agents to queue content * before * a user needed that content.
A view of the wizard’s lair at Tintagel.
I have to tell you that the response to these confidential, technically charged, and blue-chip consultant type briefings was—ah, how shall I say it—dismissive, maybe indifferent.
I thought of these six or seven big dollar escapades when I read PCWorld’s “More Than 50 Android Phones to Ship in 2010”. It is not just the handsets or the Android operating system. Nope, it is the fact that there is a Google telephony consortium guzzling Googzilla’s own Kool-Aid and chanting compression algorithms in Mountain View’s Tintagel.
Now three years later, guess which big, unassailable, monopolistic industry has a Google sized problem on its plate for the New Year? Yep, those same telco executives.
Do you know which industry sector is next? Folks are waking up, but it may be a little late. More on the future of Google appears in my Google trilogy. Spend $1,000 and find out if you should be applying for work as a Wal*Mart greeter. On the other hand, pretend Google is a search and ad company. Life is more comfortable in the cloud of unknowing. Just ask your telco connections via one of Google’s communication methods. Honk.
Stephen Arnold, December 13, 2009
I wish to disclose that I was not paid to write this “I told you so” article. Now to whom must I disclose this? I know. The Federal Communications outfit. Yes, that’s the one. This is a freebie shamelessly promoting my three Google monographs. Almost 1,000 pages of Google information from its patent documents and other open source information objects.
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