Google Seeks Billions in Doubling Mobile Web Access Speeds: Tech
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Like many users of mobile devices, Arvind Jain is annoyed by how long it takes Web pages to load over cellular connections.
The Google Inc. engineering director is continually monitoring Internet-access rates -- from hotels, offices and airport lounges around the world -- looking for ways to speed things up. Jain’s mission: get websites to load over mobile-phone networks twice as quickly as they do now. Today’s times are typically 9.2 seconds in the U.S.