Google has ventured into building of broadband network. It intends to build a high-speed broadband network for around 50,000 to 500,000 consumers in one or more American cities.

This news has drawn attention from city leaders, civic boosters and economic development kinds across the nation. America is lagging behind in high-speed Internet as compared to most of other industrialized states. Although President Obama has disclosed a plan, which will take the nation forward, it is likely that it will be enmeshed in Congressional bickering for some time.

Meanwhile, Google’s proposal of a network with superspeed of one gigabit per second, or 100 times faster than many of present day’s high-speed connections.

The Google fever is so high that the Mayor of Topeka, Kan., Bill Bunten has made an announcement to rename his city Google for the month of March.

More so, a dairy in Madison, Wis., has made a “Google Fiber” ice cream flavor, vanilla ice cream with granola and M&Ms to go with Google’s multicolored logo.

Meanwhile, current broadband providers, who supply Internet access to millions of homes, have called the Google endeavor a gimmick, which will not do much to improve the nation’s broadband program.

Scott Cleland, the Chairman of NetCompetition. org, an organization, which represents several telecommunications companies and their industry associations, said, “Google will rue the day that it can’t meet the unrealistic expectations that it has set. The interesting thing will be to see how cities react when they are jilted at the altar”.