During a keynote session at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday of this week, the senior vice president
of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc. Sundar Pichai, announced the
Internet giant will launch their very own wireless service as an MVNO in the
coming months. This news comes following numerous reports over the last
few months that have claimed Google have been planning to launch their own
wireless network. Many people have thought that a Google MNVO is just what the
wireless industry in the United States currently needs.
For Google to become a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, it
would mean they will likely team up with one of the other network carriers in
order to run their own wireless service using one or more networks. This
comes at a time when Google have several of their own projects for delivering
Internet access to people, such as the Titan project and the much anticipated Project Loon initiative.
During the keynote speech, Pichai confirmed Google
are working with other carriers on the roll out of the wireless service. It was
reported previously that Google’s wireless service would be capable of
automatically switching between carriers connectivity, such as T-Mobile and Sprint, based upon which network offered the
best wireless service at a given location.
Pichai did not however provide many other details
concerning this initiative, but he did lean towards the fact that this
project would launch on the scale of its Nexus devices, at least initially
anyway. This could be a hint that the service may be paired with its own
Android devices, but who knows?
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