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That was largely due to their acquisition of Omniture.
Adobe's new facility for Omniture is north of Provo.
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Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).
and I pay around 80 in TN for 25 mbps
San Francisco, I have zero hope for due to the totally dysfunctional city government, but Palo Alto, Mountain View, maybe EPA (for political reasons), Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino all seem pretty sanely governed.
If EPA had Google Fiber, I'd probably brave the (moderate, now) security risks, air quality, and floodplain.
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Wasn't this announce from the very beginning? A bit slower(100Mb?) with a one-time installation fee(~700USD I think) that could be financed.
Free Internet at 5 mb up/down for a $300 installation fee.
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Utah has a pretty solid economy, and lots of outdoors enthuiasts love it. I don't know much about Provo, but the drawback to me about Utah is that you have to live in a state that is strongly controlled by the LDS, which is great if you are a mainstream Mormon. Not so much if you aren't. My good friend recently left the Salt Lake City area after several years. When his neighbors found out he wasn't Mormon (LDS to be…
I'm not LDS, and generally dislike religion, but I wonder how bad an LDS-controlled area really would be. I assume it means good disaster/etc. preparation, a relatively strong social safety net for participants (and thus less abject poverty, random crazy people, etc.) The non-LDS or ex-LDS people I know who live in Utah (from Defcon or whatever) seem pretty cohesive as well. Maybe because it's a smaller tech scene th…
Prepare to be disrupted.
I wish Palo Alto could get out of their limited and never very awesome metro fiber business (run by the city, like their other utilities) by getting Google as a partner. For Google, it would make sense from a marketing perspective -- if I got 1Gbps fiber at home in PA due to Google, I'd be more positively inclined toward the company in general (for working, M&A, other products, whatever). San Francisco, I have zero h…
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Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).
You're well off. Here in Ontario, I pay ~$75 a month (after taxes & extra fees) for 25mbit. I would kill for $60 40mbit service.
Good god I hope these announcements light a fire under the butts of the other US providers.
In non-Fiber cities, has anyone seen a change in price from the big providers like Time Warner Cable? Anecdotally, I haven't seen one.
I'm surprised about Utah, even with the existing fiber. The population density in most of the valley is really low, and the installation cost to subscriber potential must be higher than it is in more compact urban areas.