So... I can get gigabit internet for either $70/month locked in for 2 years or $25/month locked in for 1 year. I'm not seeing the point of the $70 pricing option.
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Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
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#42Living in Argentina, and paying quite a lot for a 3Mb/s connection, now I hate America a bit more :D
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#43Usually when people in Silicon Valley use the word "amazing", I roll my eyes. But $0 internet is very amazing. On top of that, $120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers.
And the included remote is a Nexus 7. Sounds almost too good to be true.
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#44Usually when people in Silicon Valley use the word "amazing", I roll my eyes. But $0 internet is very amazing. On top of that, $120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers.
$120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers. I pay $120/mo in New York and get high speed internet, and cable TV with HBO (conspicuously missing from Google's offering) and ESPN. Don't get me wrong, I'd switch to Google in a heartbeat, but I don't actually think that $120 price point is much of a slap in the face to existing providers. EDIT: and this is just i…
I get decent internet, home phone, and sdtv for around $200 here :( Worst part is, I don't think my situation is that uncommon.
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#45Usually when people in Silicon Valley use the word "amazing", I roll my eyes. But $0 internet is very amazing. On top of that, $120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers.
$120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers. I pay $120/mo in New York and get high speed internet, and cable TV with HBO (conspicuously missing from Google's offering) and ESPN. Don't get me wrong, I'd switch to Google in a heartbeat, but I don't actually think that $120 price point is much of a slap in the face to existing providers. EDIT: and this is just i…
Did it come with a free Nexus 7? Google's going to decimate the existing cable and DSL offerings in Kansas City in less than a week.
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#46When I was at Georgia Tech, I got 650 Mbps. You realize the bottleneck isn't your connection at that point -- it's everyone else's. Which means a lot of sites still download just as slow. Although the big sites have optimized data centers, so it was pretty cool downloading an entire OS in a few seconds (although I think my hard drive write speed limited that a bit too). My father works in the fiber optics industry an…
Would Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Amazon cloud storage, et al exist today if we could send data across the US at even just 650Mbps?
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#47Why start this in Kansas City? Is this like trying to produce a future Broadway show in New Haven or San Diego, so you can work out the kinks before you go to the big time?
They had a big competition where lots of cities bid to be the first city, and they won. One issues was that all utilities in town are above ground on poles. They wouldn't have to bury any cables, just string them along the existing poles.
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#48The cable channel lineup looks limited (no ESPN? can you add HBO?), so I wonder if they will get much adoption there. Internet pricing looks fantastic.
I still plan to get it once it gets to Seattle, but I'm kinda bummed out that there's no Cartoon Network (specifically Adult Swim).
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#49Why start this in Kansas City? Is this like trying to produce a future Broadway show in New Haven or San Diego, so you can work out the kinks before you go to the big time?
They courted communities about two years ago for this. The idea was to find an area that would work with them, and actively help. KC "won". It makes things easier, I would imagine, if an entire city council was lobbying for you.
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#50The cable channel lineup looks limited (no ESPN? can you add HBO?), so I wonder if they will get much adoption there. Internet pricing looks fantastic.
ESPN is the most expensive cable channel. They charge the provider roughly $4/month if it is part of a main package, or $20/month if it is part of an upgrade.