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Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
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#182> 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…
I recently moved to San Francisco from Chicago. I was paying $45/month for 25 mbps in Chicago, and I now pay $50/month for 150 mbps in SF. It feels like Chicago needs Fiber more than we do.
Funny. I pay $45/month for 155 in Chicago.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city. What? How?
This year one of them was released, but up until then, IL was the only state in the US to have 3 previous governors serving prison time for corruption. Yeah... it really is that bad. However, most all of the corruption happens where the money is... in the City of Chicago / Cook County.
Chicago mayors have a bad track record too.
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At least you can get shit built in Chicago by paying people off. In places like Baltimore, you're just not allowed to build anything.
Similar in Seattle. Good luck getting Google Fiber here.
Uhh Seattle has fiber offerings already though? For example http://gowaveg.com/
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
TWC coverage is not bad - my addresses in LA each have had 300Mbps available for $65/mo. Speed tests clock in around 330Mbps down.
TWC coverage here in Rochester, NY is $84/month for 50Mbps. I'd guess you only get 6x the speed for less money in LA in places where fiber is a viable competitor.
I have gigabit fiber at my house in Rochester for $100/month via the new upstart ISP, Greenlight (actually their lower 500Mbps tier for $75/mo). They're expanding slowly, but they are expanding.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
the truth can't be literally unbelievable by definition. My least favorite aspect of these stories has to be all the people who like to list out the price of internet connectivity as if it lives in a vacuum. It's not really a meaningful datapoint on its own for a number of reasons, and the conversation it engenders is almost never worth reading.
> the truth can't be literally unbelievable by definition.
Why? How does the truth of a story have any bearing on its believability.
(Eg some people are literally unable to believe some scientific facts.)
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently moved to San Francisco from Chicago. I was paying $45/month for 25 mbps in Chicago, and I now pay $50/month for 150 mbps in SF. It feels like Chicago needs Fiber more than we do.
Funny. I pay $45/month for 155 in Chicago.
Huh, it's a shame there isn't more transparency (or consistency) in pricing.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Most of those aren't even mututally exclusive.
Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
#190It's just talk. Google has parts of three small cities wired. Google has never done a big city, or an entire city. Sonic already has parts of San Francisco hooked up with gigabit fiber.[1] [1] https://www.sonic.com/gigabit-fiber-internet
I'm in Salt Lake City, where they announced they've been building a long time ago, and we ain't seen sh*t yet.