In reply to a post by rhetherington:

Would love some Google Fibre here. They could buy out small-scale providers like WightFibre and expand from that base.

WightFibre is a cable network, not full fat fibre. Google would have to overbuild the infrastructure regardless.

One difference is when it comes to Hollywood and other greedy mits compared to BT.

They recently fought tooth and nail to try and stop law passing causing them to reveal user identity to these companies.

They did lose but they still tried. More than Google has done in similar situations.

Remind me again which ISP was going to implement Phorm ?

Google have done massively more than BT to fight against having to disclose user data.

In reply to a post by Sammaye:

One difference is when it comes to Hollywood and other greedy mits compared to BT.

They recently fought tooth and nail to try and stop law passing causing them to reveal user identity to these companies.

They did lose but they still tried. More than Google has done in similar situations.

http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-google-team-sue-fede...

Google can't even talk about the requests they receive.

At least you could opt out of thorm.

Same as BT, NDAs are all the rage, but they also do fight very public battles when needed.

Google seems to be causing more trouble normally: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24047235

Only if you knew about it. BT ran a secret trial without informing customers!

Ok that is wrong, no question, though they learnt it appears. I haven't seen them try it since.

What gets me about Google is that they just don't quit.

Not sure what your problem is with Google. Yes, they collect personal data about their users in return for providing a multitude of free services. No one has to use them though.

They've also been the driving force behind the development of an open source (so we actually know what it's doing) mobile operating system which has gone on to blow away the competition completely.

BT however are still massively failing to create what's required for a proper 21st century network in the UK.

BT Retail now tops the lists for customer complaints..

BT Retail is not to be equated in that respect with the 100+ other ISPs that use basically the same services via BT Wholesale and Openreach.

The broadband CS at BT Retail appears to be very poor compared to most others. Their throughput capacity I don't know about. Their capacity for cockups such as the many past and current email fiascos seems immense.