Something About Google Fiber Doesn't Sit Right with Me
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Re: Something About Google Fiber Doesn't Sit Right with Me
#2I fail to see how any of the things you mentioned are negative.
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#3I fail to see how any of the things you mentioned are negative.
Taxpayers paying for a commercial service whether they use it or not sounds like one. Special privileges and fast-tracking is another.
Re: Something About Google Fiber Doesn't Sit Right with Me
#4It would seem odd if there were multiple utility companies offering to provide the service and Google got an unfair advantage. If nobody else was offering anything then what is wrong with a government agency working with private company to provide service that is helping people?
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#5It's not the "way to good to be true vibe", it's just that people in the US think that they have the best of everything so how can we have something out there so much better for the same. When in reality the US is far behind in infrastructure in a whole. So why this upgrade looks amazing the truth is its the only thing on par with the rest of the developed world.
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#6I fail to see how any of the things you mentioned are negative.
Taxpayers paying for a commercial service whether they use it or not sounds like one. Special privileges and fast-tracking is another.
In principle, the first one of those is not intrinsically bad. There are plenty of peripheral benefits to cheap high speed internet that people will reap even if they aren't using it. That's the whole idea behind subsidies.
The second part is what troubles me.
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#7Wait, I think I know what it is..... Hmm, what's that word.....? Oh yeah.....
Privatization!
Of course it's less than ideal! In a perfect world, we'd have had a nationwide gigabit deployment years ago. Internet would be a global human right, yada yada.
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#8Of course Google is "doing this to upset the status quo". The status quo makes a lot of money providing a crappy product with crappy service. Google wants to disrupt that by providing a good product (probably with crappy, but better, service, if they hold true to form) so they can become the new status quo.
And if KC invests in this and can see some knowledge worker jobs come to the Heartland, that seems like a true investment and not a dole.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Taxpayers paying for a commercial service whether they use it or not sounds like one. Special privileges and fast-tracking is another.
In principle, the first one of those is not intrinsically bad. There are plenty of peripheral benefits to cheap high speed internet that people will reap even if they aren't using it. That's the whole idea behind subsidies. The second part is what troubles me.
Isn't it very normal for cities to support companies that they want to come into their city?
Whether it's a factory or some other sort of service I don't see what the problem is. If the city government thinks it is a company worth doing what they can to help out that's fine, it's up to their judgement. And if the citizens that live there disagree with the city's government then they should elect new city government when elections come around.
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#10"To get that in writing, that’s 91.58 Mbps down and 35.01 Mbps up."
No. That's how fast speedtest.net is. Google Fiber is much, much faster. Try it again with http://speedtest.googlefiber.net/