Does anyone know for certain whether Google data mine's their Fiber data?
Google Fiber Austin
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Re: Google Fiber Austin
#22It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
AT&T couldn't even roll out U-Verse in San Francisco: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/att-ordered-stop-u-verse-... , and it's among the hardest cities in the U.S. to build any physical infracture: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/... . As demand for housing the bay area rises supply remains constant, leading to dramatic price increases.
These are political problems and they have political solutions. It's not "sad" that Silicon Valley can't get faster Internet access; it's the nature of the way California's politics as a whole have developed. The number of veto players (http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Bring...) and NIMBYs ensure the problems California is currently experiencing.
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#23It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
AT&T couldn't even roll out U-Verse in San Francisco: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/att-ordered-stop-u-verse-... , and it's among the hardest cities in the U.S. to build any physical infracture: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/... . As demand for housing the bay area rises supply remains constant, leading to dramatic price increases.
These are political problems and they have political solutions. It's not "sad" that Silicon Valley can't get faster Internet access; it's the nature of the way California's politics as a whole have developed. The number of veto players (http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Bring...) and NIMBYs ensure the problems California is currently experiencing.
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#24It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
Not really. Spread the benefits - Silicon Valley already has the advantage of having a huge amount of investment money swilling around. Give Austin and Kansas better internet connections to see if they can attract larger startup industries of their own.
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#25Yet another reason why I love living in Austin. Yay! ;)
That and getting underpaid (after COLA adjustment with the Bay Area).
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#26It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
AT&T couldn't even roll out U-Verse in San Francisco: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/att-ordered-stop-u-verse-... , and it's among the hardest cities in the U.S. to build any physical infracture: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/... . As demand for housing the bay area rises supply remains constant, leading to dramatic price increases. These are political problems and they have politica…
Interesting. I have U-verse in Soma. Apparently my apartment building has a "deal" with AT&T so that no other TV/Internet providers can work there. And if you're curious, the U-verse Internet plans are awful.
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#27Yet another reason why I love living in Austin. Yay! ;)
Ya big jerk, can you send some of that fiber to your Minneapolis brothers in the north?
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#28Does anyone know for certain whether Google data mine's their Fiber data?
Why? They probably do as other ISPs.
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#29It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
Agreed. Whenever there's a comparison of our pathetic speeds with those in Korea/Japan, people claim "the US is a huge country", etc. However, San Francisco's density (6600/km^2) is higher than that of Tokyo (6000/km^2); why doesn't SF have FTTH?
Note that both points can be true. Local politics can screw over SF Internet, and it can be more difficult to wire up a larger sparser country.
Re: Google Fiber Austin
#30It is sad that silicon valley has been so slow to adopt google fiber
Because not all cities want to sell their souls to Google: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/11/the-real-cost-of-goog...
Edit: Google-washed version of what they demand from cities: https://fiber.storage.googleapis.com/legal/googlefibercitych...