Google undermines broadband duopoly claim

Google is helping fund a satellite broadband access start-up to reach the 3 billion people in the world that are not economically near fiber access per an FT story.

Now that Google has invested millions to vouch for the viability of satellite broadband as a broadband access technology, it will be harder for Google's Poodles, like FreePress and Save the Internet, to argue that broadband is a duoopoly and that broadband competition is not possible. 

This Google endorsement of satellite broadband technology is on top of Google's endorsement and investment in Clearwire's WiMax broadband wireless deployment, which is yet another Google validation point that wireless broadband can compete with cable modems and DSL. 

Those that continue to argue that broadband is a monopoly or a duopoly simply are not in touch with marketplace reality.