In recent news, Bell has been accused by Google for throttling certain internet traffic in Canada which illegal under Canadian telecommunications law.

I am glad that Google is getting behind this since they have some power to deal with.

I think internet throttling is just a scam for telecommunication companies to make more money off consumers.

By throttling internet, big online businesses like Google, Yahoo, and AOL will get affected since it means less traffic in the long run.  Throttling might be the worse way to make someone pay for internet, especially since internet has been growing steadily.

They had throttling way back before the internet, when Prodigy and AOL were fighting for customers.  Both Prodigy and AOL used to have pay by hour.   But AOL started offering $10/month for unlimited dial-up access, which proves why AOL got real big while Prodigy just died.

Returning to the point, throttling isn’t much of a problem in the long run as I foresee that at least one telecommunication company will offer unlimited internet and they will get all the customers.

As far as I can see, telecommunication companies throttling internet are simply shooting themselves in the foot.  People by in large control how companies dictate their policies, not the other way around.  Let’s start by boycotting Bell, whatever that crap is.

In a recent article by BusinessWeek, the writer claims that real threat to Google could be mobile phones. Due to the smaller sized screens, Google possibly be facing a lot less advertising space.

This is true if everyone started Googling on their cellphones but I see that is unlikely within the next 5 to 10 years.

Although mobile devices have proven to be more efficient and pretty much everywhere in Asia, the U.S. still has a long way to go because the telecommunication companies don’t want to sell new technology. The biggest scandal in the U.S. is that Sprint, AT&T, and all the other cellular providers are still behind in speed compared to the rest of the world.

In Korea, they’ve had Wi-Max, broadband internet about the speed of Cable DSL here for last 2 years or so. In the U.S., Sprint expects to roll out Wi-Max maybe end of this year, and that’s still a “maybe”.

For U.S. telecommunication companies, they make far more money by selling consumers outdated 3G phones. Why sell new tech when you got $500 million inventory of outdated phones?

So, in final words, no. Google will never have to face any real threat from mobile phones. Instead, they will probably get bigger with viral spread of their new open-source Linux-based mobile operating system, the Android.

With capabilities similar or better than the iPhone, Google’s Anroid will be able to convince the world to use their phone. As for ads? Maybe they will give out free Google phones that have ads on them.

Thanks to Josh for tipping me on this article.