SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc plans to build a superfast Internet network for up to half a million people, a project that could pressure telecommunications companies to loosen their control of web access in the United States.
The firm has locked horns with the likes of AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc over the issue of net neutrality: Google wants telephone companies to permit consumers to run any web application they want, while carriers do not want to lose control of networks they have invested billions of dollars to build.
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