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I like dreamin'. . . . . 'cause dreamin' can make you miiiiiiine. . . .
I'm going to dredge this thread up in 5 years and will eat my words if ANY of you have Google fiber at that time.
It is fun to dream, isn't it?
Google chose Kansas City in March 2011. The first customers went live with Google Fiber service in October 2012. Installations continued through 2013 and should be completed in the chosen "fiberhoods" by the end of 2014.
How did you form this opinion that absolutely nobody in a chosen area would have Google Fiber service within 5 years? I get your general point that the Google Fiber rollout has been slow in Kansas City, but you are being very imprecise with your words (which bugs engineers like me).
If there is a winner there is a loser, here the losers will use all their might to stop the would be winners! So, I am not yet rain dancing(though I wish too), i am a bit worried they will do everything they can to stop Google! If each of the towns have a memorandum in the coming elections, people will welcome this idea and we will all be set!!!
Google should encourage towns to put a memorandum in the elections so to prove that people want this, so we can avoid any political opposition!!
There has been political opposition to and legislation (ahem) against adding more municipal networks in NC. Google Filber is obviously not a municipal network. I hope Google eventually targets every state where similar bills were passed.
1. They only ever covered a small portion of the Triangle - generally outlying areas, so not a huge profit center. 2. Copper-based POTS is a dying business.
I would love for this to come to my orphaned former Bell South neighborhood that has fiber to the curb already in place which is not compatible with the current rollout of Uverse and may never be. The best I can get with DSL now is 6 meg down and 512k up, which are speeds that really suck in this day and age.
I refuse to deal with TWC so anything will be an improvement if Google can make this happen.
The neighborhood I am in has a slightly earlier version of that orphaned system. We can get only 3.0 down, which really only every gets a bit under 2.5.
So, basically less than 4 miles from the border of RTP, we have really one broadband provider!
I really like our chances downtown Durham especially since American Underground is a Google Tech Hub now. And, well, they even started the Google Glass national tour here. Durham is too Googley to ignore now.
Looks like NC NGN has acknowledged the Google news. Good stuff.
I welcome any competition/alternative providers. It would be even more wonderful if if we could get competition in utilities and healthcare. I'm sure there are even more areas that government stomps on competition.
Your last sentence isn't relevant to this conversation, except to remind us once again of your political leanings.
In fact, the dearth of competition is a direct result of actions taken by private sector monopolies, not government - except when government passes protectionist laws on behalf of the telco monopolies.
I think it's pretty safe to say that Google isn't likely to ignore the areas of the Triangle they have chosen and will grab all instead of cherry-picking them. It wouldn't make much sense to ignore all the people who are employed in RTP when the goal is to set this service up in a market that will utilize it to the fullest.
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