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Was so excited then saw it was just limited to Kansas City, what a tease, but glad to see they're 'shaking' things up.
Sort of like hearing that the new Android upgrade is available, but only international phones for the next year, and your phone might not even support the new version.
When 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…
I think that is exactly the point. That's why they are doing this; Google doesn't know what exactly will happen when everyone in the USA/world has fiber connections, but they do know that incredible innovation will come. What kind of applications will be built? What kind of applications can be built?
Couple this with the increasing computing power inside each home over the next many years, and Google will have control over an unbelievably fast and large network of computers.
I'd be certain most applications are in the weak-to-strong AI arena.
Free internet. That's rather creepy from Google. When they roll this big it would hurt other providers, which in itself isn't bad, but having only Google as a choice is. Can they even do that by the way (anti-monopoly regulations)?
Free internet. That's rather creepy from Google. When they roll this big it would hurt other providers, which in itself isn't bad, but having only Google as a choice is. Can they even do that by the way (anti-monopoly regulations)?
Yes - Google does not (A) Have a monopoly in providing Internet to the home and (B) they are not attempting to leverage their monopoly in search (which they _are_ pretty close to having) in order to achieve dominance in another market.
I think they are clear from an anti-trust position.
How would they get this into SF or NYC? Verizon currently testing a 300mps I am sure they will scale that a bit in next 1-2 years.
What about smaller markets like Seattle, Portland, or other cities up here? Is there any more info about their plan for build-out or how soon it'll be available in our neighborhoods?
Free internet. That's rather creepy from Google. When they roll this big it would hurt other providers, which in itself isn't bad, but having only Google as a choice is. Can they even do that by the way (anti-monopoly regulations)?
Usually 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…
* 1Gps Internet
* TV service
* A Nexus 7 tablet
* 2TB 'Storage' that has features that make is sound like a full NAS to me
* 1TB Google Drive (1TB dropbox would run ~$100/mo alone)
Its a bit more than your average TV+Internet package you'd get from a telco.