Google has been providing WiFi to Silicon Valley for quite some time, I would think with their fiber rollout the next big step could be to use the fiber as a backbone and provide WiFi.
From the Article it's not going to be Wifi but, more like cellular with a new frequency spectrum. Which is odd to change it up either way, especially since their target is cell phone users.
That's pretty scary. Makes an argument for just hanging up and not messing with them. This takes it far beyond scamming. This is now threatening and extortion.
Data prisoning is a big deal. You need companies with clear paths to data migration. Something very important to ask when getting into a situation where a vendor holds your critical data.
That's pretty much inevitable though, right? Look at any technology and you can pretty much apply this same logic to it. Though the time frame can fluctuate wildly.
I'm trying to kill it off here, but it's not easy. There are always a couple of annoying users in any organisation who think it's great and fancy themselves as amateur software developers. Normally leaving me to pick up the pieces when it all goes wrong.