Google Fiber: Fixed Wireless for Last Mile May be in Play

Building fiber-to-the-premise is hard, expensive, and time-consuming. Even for a company with vast resources like Google. The challenges multiply when you’re a competitive over-builder and your competition sees you coming. Those competitors don’t exactly stand around and wait for you to cherry pick their customers away. Perhaps these and other realities have led Google to look at faster and less expensive ways to deliver ultra-broadband to the home. Maybe even a Google Fiber fixed wireless approach? A recent filing at the Federal Communications Commission suggests that Google is experimenting with just that. It’s impossible to tell from the filing what Google’s ultimate plans are, but they are definitely snooping around wireless delivery of broadband.