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Google reportedly wants to launch its own wireless network

03
Apr
2014

Google is reportedly considering running its own wireless network. Sources tell The Information that company executives have been discussing a plan to offer wireless service in areas where its already installed Google Fiber high-speed internet. Details are vague, but there are hints that its interested in becoming a mobile virtual network operator or MVNO, buying access to a larger network at wholesale rates and reselling it to customers. Sources say that Google spoke to Verizon about the possibility in early 2014, and that it talked to Sprint about a similar possibility in early 2013, before the company was officially acquired by Softbank. Currently, Fiber networks have been built in Kansas City, Missouri and Provo, Utah;

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