Mountain View, CA-Google has brought on a major trauma in the ISP industry by announcing its official launch of the Google TiSP division. Google TiSP is a free high-speed broadband access service using existing plumbing infrastructure in the customers’ homes. Originally an April’s Fool joke, Google TiSP had gained worldwide reputation for being revolutionary in theory but hilariously stupid in practice. However, technology has evolved so much in the last three years that it has become technologically feasible to make Google TiSP a reality.
“This is one of the greatest advances in the history of internet,” said Stephen Prashner, the newly-appointed head of the Google TiSP division. “Our services will bring a free, high-speed internet to literally everyone with a toilet in their homes.”
Although TiSP has been met with some skepticism, the idea of a widely-available free broadband internet has crashed several ISP’s stocks, most notably Comcast. Comcast stocks, which were selling for about $15 a stock, has crashed to the value it deserves, namely about $0.15 per stock.
Google is no newcomer to crashing other companies’ stocks. Earlier this year, with the launch of Android 2.0 and its free turn-by-turn navigation system, Google made a significant dent to Garmin and TomTom’s stocks.
It will be interesting to see what other kinds of smelly but free ideas Google will be able to cook up in their fortress in Mountain View, California.
In other news, plumbers around the U.S. are worried that they will now have to learn skill in broadband installation following the announcement of the Google TiSP division.