DHAKA: Search engine giant Google Inc. planed to launch a wireless service in a small-scale across the USA to “drive innovations”, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Google’s plan is likely to raise a new risk of tension between the Internet company and the wireless carriers in the USA – Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. – that support its Android mobile-operating system.

The service would be small-scale and not intended to compete with the four big U.S. national carriers, Sundar Pichai, the Google executive who oversees Android, told an industry conference in Barcelona. Instead, it would be intended to demonstrate technical innovations that carriers could adopt.

You will see us announce it in the coming months,”. Pichai said. “Our goal here is to drive a set of innovations which we think the system should adopt.”

The comments confirmed earlier media reports of the company’s plans. Google has struck deals with Sprint and T-Mobile to resell service on their networks, people familiar with the matter have said.

Pichai said on Monday that Google would team up with carriers to launch the service but didn’t name them.

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile declined to comment.

BDST: 1256 HRS, MAR 03, 2015