*update*-Google Fiber, "were ready to lay fiber", might bundle TV service also

[dave_the_nerd]

Funny... I mostly use the internet for laying pipe.

 

[WelshBloke]

LOL. Like google will do anything different with it than the other 2.

Exactly, at least you get a super fast connection as well.

 

[Exterous]

Sigh. Well maybe one day some alternative to comcast and ATT will come here....

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

I know right? Porn would load instantaneously.




That sucks...

Wonder if I pay as much as you do for my 30/30?

90 percent of the users in my country are on mobile broadband. Local loop is not unbundled where 1 previous Government company is ruling. You have to put in a home telephone to have a hardline here.

 

[Lifted]

And youtube will still be slow.

 

[Jeff7]

Does this mean Google is going to become an ISP, too?

All this vertical integration, and Google will become the "Standard Oil" of the internet.

Google will become the Standard Oil of the planet.

Their software is in some of our communications devices, they have a project that's developing self-driving cars, and they could very easily mess around with the availability of information.


Do no evil.

 

[rudder]

Just what we need. Even more data being collected about how people use the internet.

Husbands would have to explain to their wives why they are getting coupons for midget lesbian videos in the mail.

 

[WelshBloke]

Husbands would have to explain to their wives why they are getting coupons for midget lesbian videos in the mail.

"Hey Honey, we may as well get them. We have vouchers!"

 

[Patranus]

LOL. Like google will do anything different with it than the other 2.

Google will do things differently as the other two are highly regulated and have special rules governing their specific business entities.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Looking at Google Zeitgeist, I see disturbing trends:
Top women searches: Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna & Aaliyah.
And top men searches: Nostradamus, Bin Laden, Eminem, Michael Jackson & Howard Stern

 

[Linflas]

Google will do things differently as the other two are highly regulated and have special rules governing their specific business entities.

The only thing any of them care about is collecting marketing data, no one at Google, Verizon, or AT&T gives a crap whether you are a fan of midget porn personally, only that there is a midget porn fan at IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

The only thing any of them care about is collecting marketing data, no one at Google, Verizon, or AT&T gives a crap whether you are a fan of midget porn personally, only that there is a midget porn fan at IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.

 

[Miramonti]

I trust Google with that information more than I would with an At&t or a Comcast...

Why? Those other firms are pretty inept at knowing what to do with it...

 

[soulcougher73]

I live in smaller city on the edge of KCK. I hope I'm within range to get said Google Fiber.

This. Hope it reaches to Olathe. Kansas City, KS is not a very desirable city to live in lol

 

[Patranus]

Why? Those other firms are pretty inept at knowing what to do with it...

More like those firms legally *can't* do anything with it.

 

[JTsyo]

As a provider of internet services Google probably has more incentive to provide good service and not throttle like current ISPs.

 

[spidey07]

As a provider of internet services Google probably has more incentive to provide good service and not throttle like current ISPs.

LOL! Yeah, google would have no incentive to provide better/faster service to all of it's applications and sites vs. those of competitors.

Nope, no incentive there at all.

 

[Engineer]

We might not get fiber here in my lifetime but I can only hope that if enough fiber is laid, it will get my speed upgraded (at a cheap cost if any) because of the threat of competition. I really need some competition in Lexington (have DSL option but it sucks and now that Time Warner is taking over cable, I don't know what to expect).

Would love to have me some Google fiber!

 

[corwin]

I googled fiber and didn't see anything about getting laid

 

[Jeff7]

More like those firms legally *can't* do anything with it.

More like those firms *legally* can't do anything with it.

I googled fiber and didn't see anything about getting laid

Turn off Safe Search.

 

[Fenixgoon]

we need more competition in the telecommunications industry. its sad how things were broken up to achieve competition and have since reverted to near monopolies

 

[spidey07]

we need more competition in the telecommunications industry. its sad how things were broken up to achieve competition and have since reverted to near monopolies

I hope you're kidding. It's one of the most competitive industies that exist.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I heard Bell is going to be laying Fiber in Sudbury, which is 300km south of me. I'm excited that they're even looking at this part of the country. Maybe we'll get it too eventually.

 

[MovingTarget]

I need some more fiber...ugh

I just laid some fiber about an hour ago. Fiber One FTW!

:whiste:

 

[brianmanahan]

Fibre...

:sneaky:

fibre would be pronounced fib-ree