Google announced on its blog today that it plans to build out a series of experimental high-speed networks in select locations that will provide connectivity at speeds 100 times faster than today's typical user connectivity.  This rapidly hit the blogsphere with follow up articles in the New York Times, Information Week, CNET, Reuters and others.

Will Google be able to accomplish what the Fed and other major carriers have not?  Perhaps, as Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman and CEO noted in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece.  This could be part of the the answer to the United States' "innovation deficit."  Could be.  It certainly can't hurt.  In the latest report, the US is placing 18th on the worldwide broadband list... at an average 3.9Mbps! 

May the new ultra-fast broadband connectivity reach you soon.