Google to launch 'Project Nova' virtual mobile network
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 03/03/2015 07:53 AM
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Google's Sundar Pichai announced some details about the plan during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, pointing out the ultimate goal of improving the quality of wireless connectivity for its Android device users.
Google’s not trying to become the next Verizon, nor do they expect to. Instead, the company will look to work with those carriers in an effort to help push connectivity and network stability forward.
Solving issues like seamless hand-offs between WiFi and cellular and the ability to have two calls automatically reconnect in the event of a drop are just a couple of the things Google wants to explore in their venture.
The service will be small-scale at first, and is not intended to compete with the four big US national carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile).
"We don’t intend to be a network operator at scale. All innovation in computing happens at intersection of hardware and software. That is why we do Nexus devices. We do it at enough scale to achieve impact," he said.
"We are at a stage now where it is important to think about hardware software and connectivity together."
Sources: Phandroid and The Telegraph UK
Google’s not trying to become the next Verizon, nor do they expect to. Instead, the company will look to work with those carriers in an effort to help push connectivity and network stability forward.Solving issues like seamless hand-offs between WiFi and cellular and the ability to have two calls automatically reconnect in the event of a drop are just a couple of the things Google wants to explore in their venture.
The service will be small-scale at first, and is not intended to compete with the four big US national carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile).
"We don’t intend to be a network operator at scale. All innovation in computing happens at intersection of hardware and software. That is why we do Nexus devices. We do it at enough scale to achieve impact," he said.
"We are at a stage now where it is important to think about hardware software and connectivity together."
Sources: Phandroid and The Telegraph UK
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