Google (GOOG) may not be a wireless carrier yet, but it’s certainly inching closer to becoming a full-fledged ISP. Google on Monday announced that it had acquired Wi-Fi service provider ICOA for $400 million, thus giving the company a “national provider of wireless and wired broadband Internet networks in high-traffic public locations.” ICOA describes itself as a company that “provides design, installation, operation, maintenance and management of WI-FI hot-spot and hot-zone Internet access,” so this seems like a really big move for Google into the ISP market. The company has also started rolling out its high-speed Google Fiber network in Kansas City and may bring it to more markets in the future.
VIA : BGR
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