Google Fiber rolling out to 4 more metros, local providers crapping pants

[rh71]

FIOS 50/50 for about $60, Gigabit for $70. Yes pls, but we're probably looking at a few more years before it hits NY.

 

[SP33Demon]

FIOS 50/50 for about $60, Gigabit for $70. Yes pls, but we're probably looking at a few more years before it hits NY.

They raised the price of 50/50 fios here to $85 (DC), not sure how yours is so cheap in NY.

 

[SearchMaster]

Wow I can totally live off 5mb down and 1mb up..

I've been paying too much for 6mb/512kb DSL for 15 years now....I'd be fine with the free Google package.

Unfortunately the same circumstances that force me to pay AT&T for this DSL package are the same ones that would prevent Google from ever getting here. Too far out and too few houses...

 

[NuclearNed]

ill start caring when it gets to the boonies

My local utility company is rolling out fiber in my absolute-middle-of-nowhere-Tennessee county as we speak. They got some sort of special grant $$$ from the govt. Not sure what the local rednecks will do with gigabit bandwidth, though...

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My subdivision broke ground 15 years ago with the phone company installing single mode fiber. Today the best they offer in 1.5Mbps service. Way to go, AT&T!

In that time the cable operator has upgraded and the minimum offered for non-cable TV customers is 30Mbps. Twenty times faster!

 

[WackyDan]

I live 1 mile outside Charlotte City limits.... Any best they will be like FIOS and just build for the density and never make it to the burbs?

 

[I Saw OJ]

I'll gladly pay google tuesday, for fiber internet today.

 

[Newell Steamer]

,.. oh NYC,..

:*-(

 

[Fingolfin269]

The speeds are nice but I'm mainly thrilled because it is one more element of competition. At least I'll (hopefully) have a choice.

 

[steppinthrax]

nashville Pfft send it to the DC area!

They are not going to because of the cost. DC is already established. If you want to do things in DC you have to suck every other politician's dick before you can break ground.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Please Google, come to DFW area STAT!

 

[MrDudeMan]

Please Google, come to DFW area STAT!

srsly, wtf? DFW has a very high population density. They would be shoveling money into drums.

 

[KLin]

We're getting a 24 strand fiber cable ran from AT&T at work tomorrow. Starting out with a 10mbps MPLS connection. w00t

 

[MarkLuvsCS]

I think a major game changer would be Google Fiber spreading not only through dense cities, but along less dense areas, partnering with T-Mobile to build Cell towers to provide LTE service to less dense areas. Google could help run a bit more fiber to provide the backbone of the towers, and maybe Google could brand the service so it's truly unlimited LTE. This would be great for less dense areas that are already in the vicinity of the fiber runs and I would imagine the cost of a few towers would be cheaper and faster than rolling out fiber in a city. They could do a voting system similar to the districts of cities, but instead have smaller towns just have people sign-up to see if they could reach XXXX number before trying to build a few towers to handle their high speed internet.

 

[feelingshorter]

Its a slow roll out but I feel as though Google is onto something. By expanding slowly we can see that this is a legitimate business and not something they will just scuttle as a one off experiment.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm hoping that the fiber connectivity coming to Nashville puts even more pressure on Huntsville to push forward with their proposed (sort-of-municipal) broadband initiative. They put out a RFP a few months ago, and that was mostly based on pressure from businesses moving to Chattanooga for better connectivity. Nashville is a fairly similar distance, but it's a much larger city (more advantageous in some aspects for businesses such as a local airport).

I did find this fairly recent article on the topic:
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/01/what_we_know_now_about_huntsvi.html

Two of the 4 cities in the list are test markets for Comcast's stupid bandwidth cap scheme.

I really hope that kicks Comcast in the pants and pushes them to drop their silly bandwidth limits. I've mentioned it before, but what irks me is just how completely and utterly consumer-unfriendly it is. It's silly that I pay $58 per month for the service itself, which includes extras like paying the staff, and 300GB, but I have to pay $60 for an additional 300GB. So, I am paying more for bandwidth than I do for the entire service. It's also pretty ridiculous that you pay in such huge chunks.

 

[Zargon]

We're getting a 24 strand fiber cable ran from AT&T at work tomorrow. Starting out with a 10mbps MPLS connection. w00t

uh........:\

that's a lot of fiber for no bandwidth

 

[MiniDoom]

They are not going to because of the cost. DC is already established. If you want to do things in DC you have to suck every other politician's dick before you can break ground.

and DC already has decent broadband $45 for 110 Mbps. If they want to bring google fiber to the dc suburbs then they would have to deal with too many different local governments.

 

[Anubis]

My local utility company is rolling out fiber in my absolute-middle-of-nowhere-Tennessee county as we speak. They got some sort of special grant $$$ from the govt. Not sure what the local rednecks will do with gigabit bandwidth, though...

they did something similar out here, installed some fiber loop in the middle of fing nowhere, some local ISP runs it and its got insane speeds for nothing but it does not hit my area


TBH id really just like come competition for TWC

 

[Phoenix86]

Midland/Odessa is one of the richest areas in Texas. For now, anyway.

Google should bring it's fiber here while there's still tons of money.

Oil at $60 is already killing jobs in the industry left and right. There's pretty much 0 chance at a major rollout to that region now

 

[OBLAMA2009]

most of us probably wont have to wait very long for gigbit speeds now that google is rolling this out, att and cable companies have incentive to do the same for the first time evar

 

[rh71]

They raised the price of 50/50 fios here to $85 (DC), not sure how yours is so cheap in NY.

triple play bundle and a couple other discounts I have going. You're doing just internet?

 

[d4a2n0k]

triple play bundle and a couple other discounts I have going. You're doing just internet?

Plus we have Cablevision as competition on LI. Long Island FiOS prices are much cheaper than the rest of the country.

 

[Brovane]

most of us probably wont have to wait very long for gigbit speeds now that google is rolling this out, att and cable companies have incentive to do the same for the first time evar

Cox has already starting rolling out Gigabit in Irvine CA. Hopefully it will come soon to my neighborhood. :thumbsup:

 

[ponyo]

Very curious about their Atlanta metro area plans, since I'll most likely be moving there within a couple years. Sadly that area is basically the entire upper-middle section of the state and this fiber project doesn't have a good track record of expanding well. Be more interesting if they would release city details, but have to wait on that for a few months.

It's nine cities. Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Hapeville, Sandy Springs and Smyrna. Unfortunately, I'm not in one of the included cities. AT&T is planning rival GigaPower for Atlanta, Decatur, Newnan, Sandy Springs. Later possible GigaPower communities include Alpharetta, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Lithonia, Marietta, McDonough, Norcross, Woodstock.

Having both Google and AT&T build out their version of fiber in Atlanta should be a win for all of us near Atlanta. I'm expecting faster speeds and lower prices from Charter and Comcast even for people outside the nine initial cities.