The title should be:
> Google winds down its fiber operations
Advancing our amazing bet
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#12Associated reading - https://www.theinformation.com/inside-the-battle-over-google... (Aug 2016) (paywall)
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#13This is terrible corporate speak.
It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities".
Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in my opinion, dishonest.
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#14I won't be surprised if this news is met with the usual sentiment that Google abandons everything that isn't immediately hugely successful, and while I often share that criticism of Google, I can't really fault them too much in this case. Getting a nationwide ISP up and running from scratch just seems like an almost impossible task. This is disappointing to me nonetheless.
Can someone with knowledge of the industry explain to me what the biggest hurdles were for Fiber and what if any mistakes Google made in it's rollout? Am I correct in assuming telco interference or hostility played a part? What could Google have done differently for Fiber to be profitable, or is this simply not an industry that you can hope to be profitable in unless you look 20-30 years out?
Basically I'm curious to learn whether this is a result of mistakes on Google's part, Google just not having the long term wherewithal for the rollout, or market/regulatory forces making such a project impossible at this time?
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#15The title should be: > Google winds down its fiber operations
Yup. "And by advancing, I mean retreating!"
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#16For most of our “potential Fiber cities” — those where we’ve been in exploratory discussions — we’re going to pause our operations and offices while we refine our approaches NOOOOOOOOOOOO. Being trapped with either Time Warner or AT&T with max speeds of 40mbps had me really excited as a San Diegan for Google Fiber.
On the plus side, you'll soon be trapped with just AT&T! Oh wait...
Time Warner Cable is a separate company from the Time Warner AT&T is acquiring. A previous spinoff.
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#17The title should be: > Google winds down its fiber operations
I think Hacker News would be improved if there was a way to add a subtitle for submissions. The title could be unedited from the original, and the subtitle could be a brief note explaining what the link is really about.
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#18In other words, no new Fiber cities.
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#19so when he says he steps aside, what will he be doing as CEO cause clearly this didn't work out - a tons of mistakes were made at least here in ATX where they keep pushing flyers through my door but...all killer no filler.
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#20This is terrible corporate speak. It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities". Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in m…
Not just for new cities. Reading between the lines they're basically saying that they're shutting down and current assets are up for sale.
I wonder who will pick up the pieces?