Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

Post by nkrisc » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 11:48 PM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #65

wiremine wrote: post #33

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People will think you're joking, but it's the first thing I thought, too. My parents live in Chicago, and they just roll their eyes about all the way people seem to steal from the city.

Ex-Chicagoan here. This is absolutely, positively not a joke. I can probably come up with a half dozen schemes that would use the fiber build-out as a thinly-veiled excuse to bleed both Google and city residents. Let's try. 1. All network providers would be allowed to charge a new "infrastructure maintenance fee" to their customers. A fixed $2, plus 40% of the amount of the fee, would go to the city per customer-mont…

Post by vdaniuk » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 11:52 PM UTC

beachstartup wrote: post #90

vdaniuk wrote: post #30

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This is so ridiculous, it's literally unbelievable. My home city, Kiev(Ukraine), has multiple 1 Gbit residential broadband providers for $6 - $15. Not joking.

this is for 'business class' service, which is often in office buildings. metro fiber and ethernet is really, really, really expensive in these buildings because of other monopoly factors - the cable companies wish they could compete here, but they sometimes can't. for example, symmetrical 10mbps metro ethernet is close to $2k/month here in LA. yes, for real. commercial service has higher SLA's (which really doesn't…

Post by xigency » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 11:56 PM UTC

Post by angryasian » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 12:05 AM UTC

tdaltonc wrote: post #85

angryasian wrote: post #31

If I had to guess, I imagine they would start out around where their offices are in Venice and at least reach to where their Youtube studios are in Playa Vista. Both areas are big for startups along with all new development in Playa Vista.

It might actually emanate out of One Wilshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wilshire

Post by monocasa » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 12:08 AM UTC

Apocryphon wrote: post #64

scott_karana wrote: post #41

> Yes, San Francisco has been skipped again and I’m going to go cry into my slow internet from Comcast. I seriously still cannot get over how funny this is. SF pitches itself as the centre of the tech universe, and yet, it still hasn't "disrupted" its own crappy broadband infrastructure. (Much less the rest of the country's!) I'm sure there's many good reasons for Google passing them over, but that doesn't keep it fr…

While we're at it, SF has also failed to "disrupt" its own housing crisis (until very recently), its infrastructural issues, its transport problems (well, I suppose ridesharing is the workaround), its flagrant income disparity issues, and the fact that the whole industry which has enabled remote work and teleconferencing is still shackled into this overcrowding, overpriced region.