“Google and the RBOCs,” analyzes Google’s strategies as they relate to the telecommunications business and the interrelationship with current RBOC strategies. Our author reviews the current telecommunications marketplace and the forces driving it, and connects the RBOCs’ and Google’s public actions and announcements with their long-term strategies. An understanding of the implications of these strategies is fundamental to understanding where the telecommunications business is going in the US for equipment manufacturers, vendors, service suppliers and investors.

This report focuses on the perceived strategies of Google and the RBOCs. The RBOCs that we will focus on are Verizon and AT&T and to a lesser extent Qwest. The report will use these companies’ public announcements and private interviews and the author’s years of experience in this area to develop a view of their strategies, comments on the strategies and likely outcomes. The report will provide forecasts on all the topics of interest.