In an article on the Engadget website, Daniel Cooper reports that “Google has applied to the FCC for permission to begin wireless spectrum tests in the San Francisco area. According to Reuters, the company’s looking into a rarely-used millimeter wave frequency that is capable of transmitting large amounts of data, but only if the receiving equipment is in the line-of-sight.”

Quoting Reuters, Cooper goes on to say “that this project could be used to build out a wireless broadband network that’s much cheaper than fiber.”

While mentioning the cost-effectiveness of such an approach (installation costs are much lower than fiber optics), Cooper notes that this is only an experiment and users shouldn’t start salivating; if anything comes of this, it will be years on the future.

He closes his post with wry humor: “We’re not going to wildly speculate upon this too much, however, because that’s what the comments section is for.”

Any Internet user would welcome a much faster Internet. Most users still have connection speeds that have not much changed in the last 10 years. Google has been interested in this problem for a while now and continues to experiment in various cities with solutions.

Online marketers, who often spend hours each day on the Internet would be the first to cheer when Google (or anyone else) solves the speed problem.

Read the whole story here: Google Wireless testing application.

Engadget.com.

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