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Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Re: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Post by stephengoodwin »

rkalla wrote: post #6

For anyone interested... the whole motivation of Google Fiber to motivate ISPs to stop gouging us does exactly what it is designed to do. Cox, in Phoenix, miraculously doubled everyone's speeds > 100mbps last year because they were concerned with our general happiness levels and wanted to show their affection. Nope... that's not it. Ran into two leads at Smash Burger in June of 2014 and asked them on the spot "When a…

I have Time Warner here in Austin. Although Google Fiber is not yet available for my place, in the last 6 months, TWC has increased my speeds and sent out new modems/routers.

Re: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Post by santaclaus »

eitally wrote: post #3

Hooray for me and all my Raleigh-Durham brethren! Besides just being a great development, I think this reflects the rapid growth of the tech sector in this area, and having cheap fiber ISP options will go a long way to ensuring we continue to attract top talent & companies.

Any idea what cities in the Triangle are actually getting this? Cary? Chapel Hill? Durham? Raleigh?

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Post by delucain »

rkalla wrote: post #6

For anyone interested... the whole motivation of Google Fiber to motivate ISPs to stop gouging us does exactly what it is designed to do. Cox, in Phoenix, miraculously doubled everyone's speeds > 100mbps last year because they were concerned with our general happiness levels and wanted to show their affection. Nope... that's not it. Ran into two leads at Smash Burger in June of 2014 and asked them on the spot "When a…

In Austin AT&T and Grande (Local ISP) both started offering Gigabit shortly after the time Google announced Austin as a fiber city. It's working.

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Post by jbkly7 »

squiguy7 wrote: post #4

I'm surprised they didn't choose San Jose. There must be some things outside of their control considering they would have expanded into their own neighborhood.

There are quite a few factors outside their control, including existing infrastructure, local regulations, and local government willingness to accommodate Google: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/20...

Re: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Post by noobiemcfoob »

santaclaus wrote: post #12
eitally wrote: post #3

Hooray for me and all my Raleigh-Durham brethren! Besides just being a great development, I think this reflects the rapid growth of the tech sector in this area, and having cheap fiber ISP options will go a long way to ensuring we continue to attract top talent & companies.

Any idea what cities in the Triangle are actually getting this? Cary? Chapel Hill? Durham? Raleigh?

From a live stream of the announcement it included Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh and Morrisville.

Now just to find a written source...

Re: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Post by evo_9 »

Is there any rime or reason to the cities that Google chooses to put fiber into? Is it a matter of more friendly local government, less resistant local teleco's, a combination thereof or some other factors?

Just seems the locations aren't exactly tech hubs so I'm trying to get a better idea of how the expansion works.

Re: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Post by aesthetics1 »

rkalla wrote: post #6

For anyone interested... the whole motivation of Google Fiber to motivate ISPs to stop gouging us does exactly what it is designed to do. Cox, in Phoenix, miraculously doubled everyone's speeds > 100mbps last year because they were concerned with our general happiness levels and wanted to show their affection. Nope... that's not it. Ran into two leads at Smash Burger in June of 2014 and asked them on the spot "When a…

Saw the same thing from Comcast in a very rural area - doubled speeds for free with higher tiers available. Went from 50 to 100. I think we are finally seeing some change.

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Post by jbrackett »

santaclaus wrote: post #12
eitally wrote: post #3

Hooray for me and all my Raleigh-Durham brethren! Besides just being a great development, I think this reflects the rapid growth of the tech sector in this area, and having cheap fiber ISP options will go a long way to ensuring we continue to attract top talent & companies.

Any idea what cities in the Triangle are actually getting this? Cary? Chapel Hill? Durham? Raleigh?

If you go here: https://fiber.google.com/newcities/ and hover over the main cities it gives you a breakdown.

Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Morrisville, Raleigh

It has it in the hero picture at the top here: https://fiber.google.com/cities/raleighdurham/home/ as well.

Re: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

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Post by evo_9 »

rkalla wrote: post #6

For anyone interested... the whole motivation of Google Fiber to motivate ISPs to stop gouging us does exactly what it is designed to do. Cox, in Phoenix, miraculously doubled everyone's speeds > 100mbps last year because they were concerned with our general happiness levels and wanted to show their affection. Nope... that's not it. Ran into two leads at Smash Burger in June of 2014 and asked them on the spot "When a…

Given that reality one wonder why the incumbents don't raise all their speeds to dissuade google from entering there various markets. Perhaps the shear magnitude of their collective greed obscures their reasoning?
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