Google to build Wireless networks in Kenya, Africa.

Google intends to build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet.

The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of technologies and holding discussions with regulators from South Africa to Kenya, according to insiders.

Many countries lack the infrastructure to bankroll an internet infrastructure, which means many
people cannot access the internet. However, Google has to lobby regulators to use airwaves reserved for television broadcasts, which at lower frequencies can pass through buildings and over longer distance.

It is also working on providing low-cost cellphones. All this investment makes business sense. By getting more of the world's poor to the internet, Google is able to get a wider market.

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