Impossible!

There are times when I read things that are totally illogical but then I just say, so what. But this one beats all. Some writer at Fierce Wireless considers a merger of Verizon and Google.

He states:

However, a merger between the two of them in the next few years is not so far-fetched, according to an opinion column from FierceCable .... A Google-Verizon marriage would be the largest corporate merger ever. The companies had a combined market cap of $537 billion at Wednesday's market close. Yet there are more than a few reasons why such a deal might work, including the fact that there is no overlap (yet) between Verizon's FiOS footprint and Google Fiber deployments. The combined company could also deliver affordable high-speed Internet service through both wired and wireless networks, and it could provide competition to a combined Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

Now I could not consider two more different cultures. Verizon is fundamentally the classic "knuckle dragger" company. People do what they are told by people who often succeeded by doing what they were told! And often in my experience they made it near the top by never making a mistake or if they did to find someone else to blame.

At Google you sometimes had to be creative and profitable. At Verizon, well, if it were up to them we would still have black rotary dials! I was there, I saw it.

So putting these two together not only stretches the imagination it goes well beyond that!

Just look at fiber. Verizon very wisely saw where wireless could go and is betting the ranch, and winning. In contrast Verizon saw the folly of fiber and stopped it. The stopped it just when Google started to get into it. With multibands, OFDM, etc wireless can do HDTV etc. In fact after Sandy Verizon is not rebuilding any physical plant, only wireless in certain areas. Great idea.

So why is Google running full bore on fiber? Good question, sooner than later they will get hit with the Comcast sledge hammer and come to a halt. The Franchise is that hammer. Doing a trial in a friendly city, one city, well that may work. But their roll out,not really. But then Google has enough money to waste learning the hard way.

When I see things like this I just shake my head. I guess someone has to fill up the world with words, meaningful or not.