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Google Fiber - July 26th Announcement
- Thread starter ThatObviousUser
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Kansas City?
Really?! At least you have an option for fiber.
Oh, it'll happen. It's hard enough for other Canadian companies to be competitive here, and not just in the telecom industry. Allowing a big American company like Google to go up against the CRTC's favorite duopoly? Never going to happen. Gotta keep that market stagnant.
I knew this was coming for years. And its coming across the country. Musty have been around 4 years ago i was talking to some folk about this and they were saying that google was buying up all the fiber and that Comcast was abandoning infrastructure and buying up media content instead to weather the storm.
RedAssedApe
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Does this mean Youtube won't run like shit all the time now or completely unrelated? 
I can't wait for this. Details have been so scarce but I am so day 1 as soon as I can. Dumping Time Warner for this.You will take Bell Fiber and you will like it
CRTC will chase them away with pitchfork and torch in hand. Protecting the consumer's rights, after all.
Vanillalite
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Congrats!
You are now the official Google-Fiber-GAF representative! We expect to hear all about how baller it is compared to all the shit we all have currently!
Tawney Bomb
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North East Ohio needs you! God knows we don't have much else.
Smashing Drive
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they would never start in silicon valley the demand would be through the roof.
Flame Lord
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I'm sure living in Kentucky means I won't be getting this any time soon...
While coincidentally all driving new sports cars with Bell/Rogers and Telus logo's
Duane Cunningham
Member
I hope it goes to JoCo, but the trucks have all been downtown/midtown. Still, it's exciting! 1:15 to go!
and so i can get rid of time warner.
NihonTiger90
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Fixed
... but yeah, all we've got here in the north part of the state is AT&T and Time Warner.Depends on where you live. Lexington had a lot of support for this, including from the local government.
jeremy70583
Member
Hoping it makes it up to Zona Rosa...but living in NKC for another month, might be able to get it just to test it out.
Angry Fork
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Fuck that NYC is the only city that matters in the US it's the most important bring it here /smug
SSGMUN10000
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Man I wish they come to Houston. I'm sure all those energy companies would love to use that Google fiber. Not only that I could possibly work for them.
Boss Man
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If I ever get the chance to pay Google instead of my ISP, I will. Not only because I'm sure the service will be 100x better, but because all ISPs are evil.
Good on Google for fighting the good fight. I think the real goal of this is simply the competition. I don't think Google plans to lay fiber optic cable to everyone's home, but they plan on letting everyone know that they could and that their ISPs are greedy assholes.
Good on Google for fighting the good fight. I think the real goal of this is simply the competition. I don't think Google plans to lay fiber optic cable to everyone's home, but they plan on letting everyone know that they could and that their ISPs are greedy assholes.
Krauser Kat
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Stand down fanboy. Chicago is where its at /spits and eats a chicago dog.
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Why would someone be more willing to trust Google as their ISP vs. someone like Verizon or Comcast, again?
Curious to hear what kind of pricing structure they are coming up with and how it all comes around to them serving insanely specific ads to their customers somehow...or if this is a product with no ad-revenue tie-in.
If it's just another pipe, it's not going to be very successful because the major players can make things cheaper with bundling...and bundling is going to be huge for 99% of customers that still have cable and still have phones (both mobile and land, soon).
Pricing would have to be extremely aggressive with some kind of ad-feeding model for it to make sense.
Curious to hear what kind of pricing structure they are coming up with and how it all comes around to them serving insanely specific ads to their customers somehow...or if this is a product with no ad-revenue tie-in.
If it's just another pipe, it's not going to be very successful because the major players can make things cheaper with bundling...and bundling is going to be huge for 99% of customers that still have cable and still have phones (both mobile and land, soon).
Pricing would have to be extremely aggressive with some kind of ad-feeding model for it to make sense.
What is the pricing? Details man.
ConfusingJazz
Member
Because they are changing the game in an industry that seems to hate change.
Even if Overland Park is able to register, I doubt my particular neighborhood even knows anything about Google Fiber. Booo
Battersea Power Station
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Why are people talking about other cities? Has Google indicated that they want to do this anywhere but in Kansas City?
maniac-kun
Member
I hope they do this in Europe too After the euro collapse tho.
After the euro collapse tho.Do you really think google got the bright idea of setting up a fiber network, in one city, for the hell of it?
Duane Cunningham
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Now now, both of you. You know there's only one place to devour a godly BBQ sandwich while enjoying Google Fiber. The Paris of the Plains. The City of Fountains. There's no place like home.
ConfusingJazz
Member
Austin?
Sigh, fuck the mickey mouse bullshit, lets just get this going already.
Missouri..... And haters gonna hate and whatnot. The coasts get shit first all the time, jesus, let the midwest breathe.
heliosRAzi
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