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Meanwhile SpaceX spends billions launching thousands of satellites into space and wreck the environment just so people can doomscroll their slop. When all we need are governments building some basic infrastructure like fiber internet for a fraction of the money.
Seriously Man, more junk in orbit
My prior city ran a survey on whether they should build out fiber to the homes around the city, since they were building their own fiber infrastructure anyway. Despite the city saying it would be cheaper and faster than the existing 0 or 1 options people had, my fellow residents cried communism and the city government scrapped the idea. Infuriating.
Americans are too stupid to vote in a lot of cases. why even hold a vote on something like this at all? just get it done. why bother asking permission from people who will answer without understanding the question
Don’t worry, even if they welcomed it international telecom companies would sue to block it anyway.
Australia almost did this right with the National Broadband Network.
Unfortunately, it was then sabotaged by the government after an election changed the majority party.
It seems to be back on track after wasting an extraordinary amount of time and money by installing copper lines, just to completely replace them with the fiber lines that were in the original plan.
and also help rig elections
And here I am still waiting for google fiber to reach my part of the neighborhood. I guess another one bites the dust.
There’s an obvious reason as to why. Municipal bureaucracy makes it unfeasible.
If only companies were allowed to just do what they wanted without rules and regulations… What a beautiful distopian nightmare we would live! Also the line would go vertical! One can only dream
They just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.
Dodged a bullit today. Pretty lucky
I’ll never understand the fanboys who glaze google.
Google only does two things.
Roll out a product REALLY well then ignore it forever leaving it an amazing state that everyone loves and is insanely consumer friendly before randomly deciding to axe it with no reason.
Or roll out a product REALLY well then promptly over monetize it forever ruining everything good the engineers did in the first place. Thus making it very extremely unconsumer friendly.
They have no middle ground.
When Google Fiber came here every ISP shat themselves and dropped prices, and raised speeds. And Google Fiber has been by far the most reliable ISP.
by the time fiber appeared, SONIC appeared just before, and others was also appearing at the same time in the bay area, fiber was in for a big competition already.
There exist places outside of the bay area.
google fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.
Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.
Add another to the graveyard
For those who’ve haven’t seen it:
299 entries… That makes it 300! Congratulations!!
Another one for the Google graveyard.
Ugh.
The service has been quite good for ten years.
Guess it was good while it lasted.
That tends to be the general way things go with all Google products.
It hasn’t hyperscaled to a billion users, so it’s not “Google scale” enough for Google. Wait… The US doesn’t have a billion people… 🤔
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Great. Can’t wait for price increases or data caps or both.
Both, along with reduced speed and support that is next to useless.
I’m shocked. Totally shocked.
Private equity means rising *prices and dropping quality until it’s useless at which point it will be sold off piece by piece. Consumers aren’t part of the process except as wallets.
👊🏽 Sonic.
Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.
I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.
i always wondered if fiber is going anywhere, like most google venture it fails poorly, because they couldnt expand, i suspect waymo will go the same way.
we currently have sonic for like 10 years and it was great. and there are other GSP ISP? that is equal or greater than fiber. ISP being a potential new revenue source, is something google dint capatalize on, likely because of AI taking all thier resources on developing it?
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lol
