Google Fiber, new potential cities

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It still baffles me that they pretty much ignore the Bay Area and only now do they include San Jose. ffs, go across the Bay, please!

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I just noticed their inclusion of San Jose includes Mountain View/Palo Alto. Awesome! Hopefully it makes AT&T and Comcast increase the speeds and lower costs.. but it probably won't for a while.

 

[zinfamous]

But I live in San Jose. Don't you want me to have cheap high speed internet?

No, not really.

 

[zinfamous]

I just noticed their inclusion of San Jose includes Mountain View/Palo Alto. Awesome! Hopefully it makes AT&T and Comcast increase the speeds and lower costs.. but it probably won't for a while.

exactly! Wouldn't you think, you know...the first test would be Google's fricking home town?

I wonder if something else is going on in my area for which I am unaware--not too long ago, Comcast called me out of the blue and offered to increase my shithole 3mb/500kb at $40/month to 15/5, basic cable, and HBO for $50/month. Seemingly, out of nowhere.

ATT did "recently" move in, but that was more than a year ago. And they suck. Otehrwise, it's been Comcast only for years, offering third-world type service! 😡

 

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I had the option of Uverse or Comcast when I moved into my apartment. Picked Uverse, but thinking I should have picked Comcast now. Speeds I get from Uverse are not that great.

 

[zinfamous]

I had the option of Uverse or Comcast when I moved into my apartment. Picked Uverse, but thinking I should have picked Comcast now. Speeds I get from Uverse are not that great.

I hate DSL. plus, from what I have seen, the video quality is not as good with UVerse. Though, it could be from watching on poorly-calibrated displays (I recall everything looking way too dark--which doesn't make sense outside of a shitty display)

 

[quikah]

exactly! Wouldn't you think, you know...the first test would be Google's fricking home town?

Well, they have their useless WiFi network for a while now in Mountain View to test on... I hope the free fiber works better than that thing. ugg..

I am excited, yet kind of put off, $70 is kind of expensive and 5Mb is too slow. Can't they do like a 100Mb plan for $40 or something?

 

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Either way, I'm very happy that Google seems to have lit some fires under these ISP's asses. It's a travesty it took something like Google Fiber to make these faster speeds a reality though. It is obvious that TWC has had the capacity to increase the speeds already and they haven't purely out of greed.

There's only so much you can do with FTTN though.

This was such a great move by Google, why just data mine at the browser, OS or phone when you can data mine everything! Google has learned a lot from years of working with the NSA.

It's still going to cost somebody a ton to buildout. That somebody is likely not Google, but it's still going to cost Google quite a bit. Then again, it sure beats paying $19B for a stupid chat app.