Google considers building option to traditional set-top box

Washington

GOOGLE is increasingly interested in building an alternative to the traditional cable set-top box, according to a top executive for Google Fiber.

Milo Medin, vice-president of access services at Google, predicts that Android TV, the Internet giant's platform for smart televisions, will "eventually build something" that allows consumers to abandon the black, bulky boxes that many currently rent from their cable providers. "We have talked to folks inside who are now getting interested in it," Mr Medin told reporters at a Washington conference last week.