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Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

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Re: Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

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Post by jeffbee »

dheera wrote: post #5

Meanwhile I live 20 minutes from Google's heardquarters and I can't even get more than 25 Mbps uplink. Maybe these big internet companies should dig up all the infrastructure in their home turf and replace it?

Do you live in a donut of Sonic coverage? There definitely is Sonic 10gbps service in Mountain View.

Re: Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

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Post by rayiner »

wmf wrote: post #7
dheera wrote: post #5

Meanwhile I live 20 minutes from Google's heardquarters and I can't even get more than 25 Mbps uplink. Maybe these big internet companies should dig up all the infrastructure in their home turf and replace it?

They're not allowed to. Regulatory capture is running wild.

The notion that any ISP has more pull than Google, Facebook, and Apple in the Bay Area is facially absurd. Cupertino literally has a deal with Apple where it pays back 1/3 of Apple’s sales taxes: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/04/california-wants-...

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Post by consumer451 »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #12
dheera wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're fucking Google. If they dig the streets up and give me 10 Gbps fiber I will be more than happy to show up to city council and yell the shit away from any NIMBY old fart that says no.

And more NIMBYs will show up to scream about Google overrunning local government. It is extremely easy to make hugely powerful corporations the villain, for obvious reasons, and this doesn't stop being true in the case where they want something actually good.

Sorry to have creeped into your bio, but what is your bandwidth in Munich?

Re: Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

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Post by dilyevsky »

rayiner wrote: post #23
wmf wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not allowed to. Regulatory capture is running wild.

The notion that any ISP has more pull than Google, Facebook, and Apple in the Bay Area is facially absurd. Cupertino literally has a deal with Apple where it pays back 1/3 of Apple’s sales taxes: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/04/california-wants-...

That’s Cupertino. MV and Google have had much more adversarial relationship going back more than a decade. Look up their failed free wifi project as an example of this

Re: Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

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Post by manquer »

lokar wrote: post #10
dheera wrote: post #5

Meanwhile I live 20 minutes from Google's heardquarters and I can't even get more than 25 Mbps uplink. Maybe these big internet companies should dig up all the infrastructure in their home turf and replace it?

This came up at lot at google when they launched fiber. CA regulation and environmental laws make it to easy for the monopolies to stop or slow you down. If you look at how they pick cities the main criteria is friendly regulations like “one touch make ready” requirements.

Meh, they could have bought one the monopolies if they wanted to, like they did with Motorola when it is was in their interest to do so.

It is a matter of will and persistence to run a this kind of business, Google does not have the DNA to run a serious enterprise business that needs decades of commitment to a product .

Re: Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

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Post by denkmoon »

ftigis wrote: post #19

In Singapore there's a telco intending to launch 10 Gbps fiber for 30 SGD (~22.35 USD) per month. likely to be asymmetric though, since their 2.5 Gbps service at ~16.24 USD per month is advertised as 2.5 Gbps down and 1.25 Gbps up.

The things you could do with 1.25gbps. Crazy stuff. Vastly different infrastructure/density situations but here in Australia I'm paying ~56USD per month for 0.04gbps up.
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