Who in there right mind ever thought there was not a 'make money' angle here. Still want it, still trying to get wife to move to KC.
Something About Google Fiber Doesn't Sit Right with Me
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#22And think of the data they can mine by having full access to your Internet usage.
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#23What are the prices of competitors in the US? Here in New-Brunswick Canada, prices are: 80Mbps down & 30Mbps up: $69.95 /mo. for first 3 months then $100.95 /mo. 50Mbps down & 30Mbps up: $29.95 /mo. for first 3 months then $83.95 /mo. 20Mbps down & 15Mbps up: $29.95 /mo. for first 3 months then $68.95 /mo. Seems to be not that far from Google's prices.
Comcast, near where I live (in MB/s, all prices are in addtion to a $7/mo modem rental )
3/.768 - $40/mo
20/4 - $30/mo 6 month promotional (incl. cable box rental), $42-62 afterwards (varies)
30/6 - $73/mo
50/10 - $119/mo
105/20 - $199/mo
Comcast seriously needs competition, and I unfortunately don't live in an sonic.net area.
I can't wait for Google to disrupt the hell out of this situation.
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#24This is incredibly disingenuous I don't know whether to laugh or fucking cry.
We are talking about Kansas City here! A city that has long since been a shadow of its former self -- once a major US hub facilitating cross-statewide trade -- now a landscape of empty derelict factories and office buildings.
At least it was before the City Planners (read: OMG! The Government) did something about it.
For the last few years there has been a huge concerted effect to revive Kansas City and save it from a fate of "Detroitism". Is that so bad? No, it isn't, unless you're of the belief that all of America's cities' outside of LA/NYC should just "suck it up and deal with it" and be the subject of the next "Ruin Porn" hipster tumblr blog.
We are now starting to see some the fruits of these efforts: Sprint Center (Stadium), Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts and many many other revitalization projects, including Google Fiber.
Spare me.
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#25It never occurred to me that profitability was a goal for google fiber. From the start I took it to be a pilot program to understand how people would be using the internet a few years in the future.
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#26Ok, if we're going to talk about 'vibes' then lets talk about this one, "Why is someone who is a search engine marketer deconstructing on Google's infrastructure build?" and why is that same article posted to a tech news site by a user with the name of an entrenched infrastructure player? Ok, so it smells like astroturf, but let's set that aside for a moment. Remember reading all those articles about how SpaceX was '…
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#27Lachman's numbers are wrong. Not that those numbers are innaccurate, but that they aren't comparing the right numbers. According to Lachman, the price to connect a single home via fiber is $1250. The price that Google is selling it's service for is $70 a month. If there is no maintenance cost, the return on investment starts happening at month 18 of service. Assuming maintenance costs are a little less than half the installation costs, that gives us around $600 per year.
Cost to Connect: $1250 - $300 = $950
Cost to Maintain/Year: $600
Price/Year: $840
So, assuming that the income chart looks sort of like this, then the point at which it becomes profitable is 4 years. And this assumes that Google doesn't get more efficient.
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#28"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/
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#29Google Fiber is supposedly about 10 times faster than that. Presumably, the bandwidth test server was being maxed out. His comparison based on the 91 Mbps result makes current ISPs look better than they should. > For comparison, where with Comcast I can download a 1080p Breaking Bad episode (1.86 GB) in about a half hour, Google Fiber would get it done in under 3 minutes. On Google Fiber, that Breaking Bad episode wo…
Is it possible the WiFi, or a crappy laptop's hdd, are the culprits for the bottleneck?
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#30None of this should come as a surprise. Remember when Google was asking cities across America to apply for the privilege of being the first city to have Google Fiber? Cities were competing against each other for Google Fiber.
Google didn't choose Kansas City for no reason. They chose them because KC was willing to be abnormally accommodating in letting Google roll out. After all, if you're going to launch an ambitious, experimental project, you want regulatory red-tape to be the least of your worries.