Canada.com’s Financial Post has written a great article called “Google: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet“, which, among other things, looks at some possible telecommunications ambitions from the country’s biggest search engine:

Anyone can get the Web on their cellphone these days. But now it seems Google is interested in so much more than that. It has reportedly approached the Federal Communications Commission recently about obtaining wireless spectrum, the base upon which mobile-phone networks are built, in the U.S. agency’s next auction. […]

Google’s plan has been underway for some time and is now gaining momentum. For at least the past three years, the company has been buying up swaths of unused fibre-optic cable — so-called “dark fibre” — around the world. Telephone and cable companies overbuilt these lines, which form the basis of the Internet, during the tech boom in the early part of this decade and Google has been only too happy to take the unused infrastructure off their hands.

A vast majority of the article is speculation and prediction. But because of the real possibility that any or all of it is true, it makes for a great read.

Is Google buying up all this fiber optic line to support its own infrastructure? Does Mountain View plan to go it alone and send all of its traffic through Google-owned pipes? Or could the search company really be planning a big push into telecommunications?