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When I was in US last, I heard that Google had organised a fiber trenching contest in a parking lot in Mountain View, and I just found out today thanks to my friends at sonic.net that there was a video released of the 'event' if you can call it that:

It's an interesting (and fun) way to select a provider for trenching work, butit doesn't alleviate a particular concern of mine which is that in the context of their FTTH trial, Google focuses too much on the technical side of things and too little on getting the business model right and the ecosystem aligned.

Then again, it's harder to do a video of a business model contest...

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