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If Google plans to tug customers to its ultrafast Internet service, it would help to bundle it with a wire-style TV package.</p><p>And to get the necessary TV programming, it would likely need an “antenna delegate” of commercial-sized satellite dishes to capture “The O’Reilly Moneylender,” “SportsCenter,” “Boardwalk Empire” and the loll of what people come to expect on their channel selections.</p><p>To do that, Google would have need of a license from the Federal Communications Commission to set up a satellite receiving station.</p><p>So rumour that Google applied to the FCC in December for such a license is now fueling speculation that the search royal might bundle Internet and TV services in Kansas City. Google chose Kansas Municipality, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., last spring as the cities where it hopes to make next-times Internet connections available and affordable to homes.</p><p>Google is being characteristically mum on the discussed. A spokeswoman said only, “We’re still exploring what product offerings will be available when we set in motion Google Fiber” — the name given for its Internet employment project.</p><p>The FCC application does not give specifics about how Google might use the facility. And the items that Google wants to camp the operation in Council Bluffs, Iowa, next to Omaha, muddies the guessing about the company’s intent.</p><p>Instead, Google said in its reference only that the company wanted those satellite receiving stations to receive so-called C-body and Ku-band signals “to provide analog and digital audio, observations and video services.” That could constitute the sort of antenna be killed that cable television companies use to capture signals before routing them to customers, analysts said.</p><p>The technology blog Ars Technica first famed the application, which was denied on technical grounds. The FCC signaled a revised bearing might go forward.</p><p>Google has been coaxing people toward watching more television programming over the Internet before. It owns YouTube, and last year signed up Hollywood flair to produce more professional content “channels” for the video-streaming website.</p><p>This improvement, if it turns out to be the construction of an antenna farm for collecting network programming, might devalue a more traditional way to pipe entertainment to living rooms.</p><p>Why Council Bluffs? Perhaps because the Omaha arena sits on the backbone of the fiber optic cables that stretch the Internet across the U.S. The position could help if Google launched its super-fast Internet rite in other markets, or if it incorporated a paid-programming package with its Google TV. </p><p>Google TV was introduced in 2010 as a way to meld everyday television programming with Web surfing. It has yet to gain much popularity.</p><p>The Council Bluffs depot might act as what the cable industry describes as a “head end.” That’s where television signals are at ease from satellites, unscrambled and assigned to channels. Google could then transfer the signals over Internet Form Television, or a technology like that used with AT&T’s Uverse service called IPTV, to homes. Running a kith to Kansas City, experts said, would be relatively simple.</p><p>The western Iowa hub might also be acclimated to to feed programming to devices such as tablets or smartphones using Google’s Android software, or to televisions connected to the Internet through Google TV, said Kansas Say University computer scientist Dan Andresen.</p><p>“You might want something centrally located in the surroundings to reduce latency” — or delays in transmission — he said.</p><p>Some analysts say the Directorate Bluffs operation could set up a television service for Google to package with its 1 gigabit-per-shift Internet service in Kansas City. Google expects to start contribution service to some neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kan., by midsummer. The company has not yet said how much it will bill, but it has said it is considering services beyond just Internet access.</p><p>“I never believed (Google’s propose for Kansas City) was going to be an Internet-only, data-only proposition,” said Sign Kersey, a cable industry analyst.</p><p>He and others said that luring customers with lawful an Internet service, even at download speeds 100 times the broadband common and upload speeds 1,000 times quicker than the norm, would be particular. Google has said it will charge rates competitive with conventional armed forces.
Source: Kansas City Star