Google Plans To Launch a Pay-For-Data-Usage Wireless Service This Week

[engine]

Reported last month, it seems Google is getting closer to launching a wireless service in the USA, with a pay-for-data-usage. Cat amongst pigeons springs to mind.

Google Inc. is set to unveil its new U.S. wireless service as early as Wednesday, pushing the Internet giant further into telecom and injecting fresh uncertainty into a wireless industry already locked in a price war.

In a key development, the service is expected to allow customers to pay only for the amount of data they actually use each month, people familiar with the matter said—a move that could further push carriers to do away with lucrative “breakage.”Report: Google Set To Launch New Pay-For-Data-Usage Wireless Service [wsj.com]

Google Plans To Launch a Wireless Service [webmasterworld.com]

[tangor]

With their movement into fiber, going to into wireless seems like the next step.

The Ad Machine will reach saturation/limits and all good corporations expand to keep the bottom line growing...