They have the pockets to do it. Nothing I'd rather see than Google laydown a fibre network and open it up. Imo the telecommunications conglomerates in the U.S and Canada have been and will continue to be our Achilles heel.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hVUX_mebYDR8Psu6QtXe0UHfqSqAD9E8LMAG0

"Google's experimental fiber-optic networks would deliver data at 1 gigabit per second to homes and businesses. That would be roughly 50 to 300 times faster than the DSL, cable and fiber-optic networks that connect most U.S. homes to the Internet today. Google has not said how many cities it intends to serve, or how much it is willing to spend to do it.

Google says it's not interested in dominating or even grabbing a sizable chunk of the broadband market. Instead it says it hopes phone and cable companies will learn lessons from the experimental network that will help them hurry the rollout of their own faster systems. It also hopes to provide a testbed for online video and other advanced applications that require a lot of bandwidth."

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi