Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
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Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#2"But Google Fiber got something out of its time here. It learned that nanotrenching—the cost-saving process of burying fiber optic cables just two inches underground—was a bust. “We currently do not have plans that call for 2 inch trenches, our primary specifications are focused on going deeper,” a Google Fiber spokesperson said in an email."
It's so weird to just use cities as A/B tests and just disregard all the people and plans built around a failed case at the drop of a hat. Are they going to start A/B testing countries against eachother next?
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
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Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#4"But Google Fiber got something out of its time here. It learned that nanotrenching—the cost-saving process of burying fiber optic cables just two inches underground—was a bust. “We currently do not have plans that call for 2 inch trenches, our primary specifications are focused on going deeper,” a Google Fiber spokesperson said in an email." It's so weird to just use cities as A/B tests and just disregard all the pe…
Trying new products in small markets as an experiment has been a thing forever, and is something literally every company does regularly. There is nothing weird about it. As for the fallout, IMO the city is to blame for it more than Google, since the company is obligated to do exactly what the contract entails.
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#5"But Google Fiber got something out of its time here. It learned that nanotrenching—the cost-saving process of burying fiber optic cables just two inches underground—was a bust. “We currently do not have plans that call for 2 inch trenches, our primary specifications are focused on going deeper,” a Google Fiber spokesperson said in an email." It's so weird to just use cities as A/B tests and just disregard all the pe…
Google does this all of the time with all of their products. The purposely degraded the performance of some users on their products (search IIRC) to see how they would react.
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#6The failure of Google Fiber paints a very bleak picture of the future of internet infrastructure, or even all communication in this country. If Google cannot compete with the status quo, who can?
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#7The failure of Google Fiber paints a very bleak picture of the future of internet infrastructure, or even all communication in this country. If Google cannot compete with the status quo, who can?
That's not the lesson I'd learn here.
This seems like Google has not yet learned how civil engineering works, which is a crucial component in internet infrastructure.
It's unfortunate that Louisville is getting bit hard here.
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#8The failure of Google Fiber paints a very bleak picture of the future of internet infrastructure, or even all communication in this country. If Google cannot compete with the status quo, who can?
The government, if it wasn't being run by puppets.
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#9The failure of Google Fiber paints a very bleak picture of the future of internet infrastructure, or even all communication in this country. If Google cannot compete with the status quo, who can?
that is very worrying, but i also wonder how hard google tried. they don't have a very good track record for building and maintaining products outside of their main product space (ads and selling data).
Re: Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
#10The failure of Google Fiber paints a very bleak picture of the future of internet infrastructure, or even all communication in this country. If Google cannot compete with the status quo, who can?
Municipalities. They are world class experts in running broadband infrastructure if only evil ISPs let them.