Google to offer FREE broadband internet

[steveryan]

http://www.google.com/tisp What will they think of next?

[ViRaL1]

To quote the guy from the Guinness commercials.

Brilliant!

This would make things so much easier.

[gadgetguy]

Sadly, my community water system is not on the list.

[steveryan]

Sadly, my community water system is not on the list.

I'm annoyed that it's USA and Canada only The Royal Flush 32 Mbps sounded just the ticket for me.

[yoda313]

Ok I'm still waking up here - this is april fools joke right???? How are they using the google name without infringement? Is this actually a giant prank from google itself????

[BJ_M]

it is from google itself

[SquirrelDip]

In a voice from Wizard of Oz... "Yoda, Wake Up!"

[Faustus]

I trust nothing on slashdot on the 1st

edit: dark fiber lol

[Conquest10]

[MackemX]

old ones

http://www.google.com/mentalplex/
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
http://www.google.com/romance/

[highvolumeJP]

This is as credible as Microsoft claiming that it will offer its operating system FREE to all home users

[gll99]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

This is a sh!tty way to hook up. More believable if they used MS rather than Google
Good one though.

[BJ_M]

http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html

[MOVIEGEEK]

APRIL FOOLS!
Read how to install: http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

[highvolumeJP]

LOL !

I can see the frivulous lawsuits piling up now "Hey where is my free broadband internet ?"

[zzyzzx]

[Faustus]

"WHY ARE YOU IN MY BATHROOM!?"

"Its okay mam I'm from the interent."

[BJ_M]

"Yesterday, Google's annual April Fools' joke featured Google TiSP, a free home wireless broadband service that connected via a 'commode-based router' and runs fiber cabling through the sewer system. This is actually not without precedent. Back in the dot-com boom, delivering broadband through sewers was the focus of CityNet Telecom, which raised $375 million in funding from major VC and private equity firms in 2000 and 2001. The company used remote-controlled robots to lay fiber through sewer lines and actually created sewer-based networks in Albuquerque and Indianapolis before merging with Universal Access in 2003."

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/01/googles_toilet_isp_not_so_far_fetched.html

[yoda313]

"Yesterday, Google's annual April Fools' joke featured Google TiSP, a free home wireless broadband service that connected via a 'commode-based router' and runs fiber cabling through the sewer system. This is actually not without precedent. Back in the dot-com boom, delivering broadband through sewers was the focus of CityNet Telecom, which raised $375 million in funding from major VC and private equity firms in 2000 and 2001. The company used remote-controlled robots to lay fiber through sewer lines and actually created sewer-based networks in Albuquerque and Indianapolis before merging with Universal Access in 2003."

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/01/googles_toilet_isp_not_so_far_fetched.html

So that's how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get their intenet service!!!!!