Can we count San Diego as a large LA suburb? Please?
Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
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#12Really hope this happens. Our current choice of Comcastholes or AT&T's Slow DSL is ridiculous for a city like Chicago.
I have RCN and I really enjoy it. I've heard their TV service is garbage but I haven't had any problems with RCN and I only pay $50/mo for 50/10 speeds.
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#13Baltimorean here. Enjoy it, bastards :D
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#14As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
> incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city. What? How?
This year one of them was released, but up until then, IL was the only state in the US to have 3 previous governors serving prison time for corruption. Yeah... it really is that bad. However, most all of the corruption happens where the money is... in the City of Chicago / Cook County.
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#15LA has had notoriously bad ISP coverage. Most houses in the area only have a choice between one cable provider or going DSL. Nice to hear AT&T is planning to roll out gigabit fiber in LA as well. http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/att-bringing-gigabit... For some reason Verizon Fios has avoided LA proper but laid out Fiber along the outskirts and in Ventura County years ago.
TWC coverage is not bad - my addresses in LA each have had 300Mbps available for $65/mo. Speed tests clock in around 330Mbps down.
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#16Really hope this happens. Our current choice of Comcastholes or AT&T's Slow DSL is ridiculous for a city like Chicago.
I have RCN and I really enjoy it. I've heard their TV service is garbage but I haven't had any problems with RCN and I only pay $50/mo for 50/10 speeds.
Had RCN in Uptown, forced with Comcast in Logan. I really miss RCN. Couldn't beat the price/performance ratio.
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#17Has Google announced San Diego officially yet? My friend said he noticed they were putting up hiring ads [1] there. But their San Diego page [2] doesn't make it sound quite official yet.
[1] https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#!t=jo&jid=137035...
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#18As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
As a resident of Chicago, I thought the exact same thing. They will either have to pay off the right alderman or they will never get this built in under 5 years. Sometimes this city embarrasses me, while at other times, I'm really proud of the work the DoIT has done in Chicago. The data they are making available is great, if only they could modernize the rest of our city services...
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#19Los Angeles will be an impressive feat. The ridiculous number of jurisdictions will generate an ungodly amount of red tape.
Well the announcements are kind of dishonest, they aren't doing whole cities. Select neighborhoods get the service and you actually be a street over and miss out. I remember the excitement when they announced Atlanta, until we saw the map.
Yes it is impractical to cover a "city" but it would be more honest to say "Coming to select areas of X"
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#20In the current fiber cities, does anyone know if the service made it out of the city limits into the burbs?
(Asking as someone right outside the Chicago city limits...)