Google trials own broadband network

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google will build and test its own ultra high-speed broadband networks to see if it can deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than current speeds.In a post Wednesday on the company blog, the owner of the world’s most popular search engine said that it would conduct a small number of trials at locations across the U.S., and hopes “to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people”.Google said that it would use fibre optic lines to the home and offer speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, but did not...