Google declared its intent to be a phone operator yesterday with a fresh strategy to make a wifi powered cellular telephone network in america.
By connecting users to millions of hotspots round the nation, the network will run and certainly will be supported by standard cell phone signal borrowed from existing operators, Sprint and T Mobile.
At start the service will just be accessible to individuals who possess a Nexus 6 handset, but analysts indicate that Google will slowly enlarge after an initial trial period.
Known as Project Fi, users will be connected by the network to any wifi network it can find, and will automatically change back to normal mobile signal if no wifi is accessible.
“Google itself has repeatedly demonstrated it is effective at altering the course of a business by entering it,” Ian Fogg from the IHS Technology consultancy told the BBC.
Project Fi was mentioned by the Android platform chief of Google Sundar Pichai in February, on just how the system might work, however just now has the firm offered detail.
“After you are connected, we help secure your information through encryption. When you are not on wifi, we transfer you between whichever of our associate networks is delivering the quickest speed, which means you get 4G LTE in more areas.”
Sprint didn’t take the choice to associate with Google the Wall Street Journal says.