Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

Post by paulitex » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:28 PM UTC

api wrote: post #29

Thank GOD they're disrupting this industry. All the telcos are worthless "Soviet bureaus" that deserve death. It's really sort of amazing to think about. In all my years on this planet I have never been pleased with a telecom company. Never. I have always felt like I was paying far too much for inferior service, contemptible customer support, and endless efforts to further "monetize" me through harassing phone calls…

Post by denzil_correa » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:30 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #107

denzil_correa wrote: post #97

The most important piece of information I see than the speeds is "No Data Caps". Will this mean the end of Fair Usage Policies? I am anxiously hoping that this is the start of the end of the evil FUP policies.

Is it dedicated fiber, or are you sharing with neighbors? If shared, just how many of your neighbors can shoving blu-ray rips around before your VOIP suffers? (Of course, even with dedicated, you still are meeting other people's bits somewhere .)

Post by eavc » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:31 PM UTC

maratd wrote: post #102

api wrote: post #29

Thank GOD they're disrupting this industry. All the telcos are worthless "Soviet bureaus" that deserve death. It's really sort of amazing to think about. In all my years on this planet I have never been pleased with a telecom company. Never. I have always felt like I was paying far too much for inferior service, contemptible customer support, and endless efforts to further "monetize" me through harassing phone calls…

> contemptible customer support Because Google will be so much better? Look, I hate telcos just like the next guy, but the suckage is mostly due to the nature of the business. They form natural monopolies and that sort of thing doesn't lead to customer satisfaction. The only way that sector is going to get truly disrupted is through gigabit wireless internet. You can have multiple competitors in one space with compar…

Post by spindritf » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

normalfaults wrote: post #96

recoiledsnake wrote: post #84

While I am super happy that the cable industry is getting disrupted as it deserves to be(the wireless industry sucks too, maybe a tech company can buy TMobile or Sprint), I feel uneasy about the following two points: 1) Profitability: I wonder how profitable and sustainable this is for Google? They can subsidize it for only so long before deciding to discontinue it as has been happening to many of their services rece…

on Point 2: How is this any different then today with Comcast/Verizon etc..?

Post by freehunter » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:33 PM UTC

lsc wrote: post #72

stephengillie wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Amazon cloud storage, et al exist today if we could send data across the US at even just 650Mbps?

yes. They would have to dramatically decrease their bandwidth charges, and they'd have to lower their charges in general (just 'cause the barrier to entry for their competition would be lower) but if anything, having a fat pipe at home would make storing things remotely a lot more attractive. Think about it; with that kind of a pipe, you could boot your desktop off of a drive in my datacenter, two cities away.