Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and TV Officially Launched

[memadmax]

[citation][nom]Hellbound[/nom]Yes, please come to California and kick Comcast in the balls.....[/citation]

And Time Warner too, I'm stuck with them, it's horibad....

 

[frankzz]

YAY! Glad I live in good ole KC! And I bow to the Google gods.

 

[mr_tuel]

And just like that! Fios is now inferior.

 

[Guest]

Wow. Free market at its best. Here in Oz the Government kindly intends to spend at least 35 billion of our cash for something no where near as elegant. I'm not joking... they have never released a cost-benefit analysis. Given their past history of picking winners, it will no doubt be ready sometime next century when the technology is obsolete and its final price makes you assume it was paid for in pesos not dollars.

 

[dalethepcman]

Thinking of checking out http://www.kansascity.com/jobs/#PPC_KCS .....

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

One step closer to Google taking over the world... Wait no HBO... How am I going to watch my Game of Thrones 🙁

 

[Pyree]

Wow. Free market at its best. Here in Oz the Government kindly intends to spend at least 35 billion of our cash for something no where near as elegant. I'm not joking... they have never released a cost-benefit analysis. Given their past history of picking winners, it will no doubt be ready sometime next century when the technology is obsolete and its final price makes you assume it was paid for in pesos not dollars.

The Australian government is building a FTTH network for almost every Australian instead of selected area where there is business interest for investment like high population density area, where the investment makes quick revenue. With Australia's population, I don't see this happening ever, apart from the states capital cities and major regional town. There will be big chunk of area and people missing out on fast internet.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]yzfr1guy[/nom]this is half the channel line up I get with Verizon FIOS and I get telephone as well for the same price, now of course my interwebz is only 25/25 but the hell needs gigabit when webservers and networks don't allow ultra fast speeds?! Wake up people, screw the g00gle machine![/citation]

You don't need a single web server connection to be able to run at 1Gb/s to use a 1Gb/s internet connection... Several people running internet intensive things while downloads are running and an FTP/bit torrent server are running could easily max out a 1Gb/s connection. Sure, you might not do that now, but if you had a 1Gb/s connection, then you'd sure as hell use it more than you use a 50Mbps or less connection just because you could.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]frankzz[/nom]YAY! Glad I live in good ole KC! And I bow to the Google gods.[/citation]

That's no better than being an iSheep or whatever else if you bow or even metaphorically bow before them. They offer a superior product at excellent prices compared to their competitors in this scenario, but becoming brand-loyal is the exact poison that companies love to use to squeeze every last penny out of us regardless of who the company is and who you are.

 

[freiheitner]

Some comments here about the speeds people are currently getting for $60-70 a month make me sad. I pay $53 a month for 10M down and 1M up. The 20x2 tier is another $20 on top of that. I always thought California had a good tech infrastructure, but apparently it's better in other parts of the country. I would GLADLY pay $120 a month for 1Gbps internet plus TV. Heck yeah!

 

[ravewulf]

No Cartoon Network or Disney Channel, kids won't be happy. The internet plans may be AWESOME, but the TV package needs work.

 

[Got Milk]

REALITY...is that Google will now face HUGE pressure from broadband and cable providers that feel threatened by what Google is doing. There is going to be TONS of money flooding into the hands of lobbyist, law-makers, and sweet-heart jobs offered to law makers family members.

Make no mistake the push for ending 'net neutrality' will not stop and when we drop our guard, if but for a moment, they will rewrite what we now know as the internet. I have no faith in corporations to NOT influence our laws, our legislation, and the business process in such a fashion so as to shut out Google completely...maybe even try and break them up via Anti-trust laws.

It is unfortunate in this country that we seem to feel everything from health care to the internet operate best on a 'for profit' model even when it (the service) is in the public good and that public good (whether it reduced sick days or increased access to data) outweighs this canard of profit profit profit.

Stay vigilant, disable your ad-blockers, and do not let congress further empower entrenched broadband and cable providers at the expense of all Americans.

 

[bebangs]

wow. nice speeds. would happily remove my cable tv to google.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

$70 for Gb internet? I'm paying almost the same thing for 43 Mb down/32Mb up on Verizon FiOS. Wow.

 

[misterawsome]

I officially love Google now. We pay $15 a month for 1mbps internet, they offer 5 mbps internet for free. Also their Nexus 7 is amazing and google created the best thing since the internet, a search engine

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]freiheitner[/nom]Some comments here about the speeds people are currently getting for $60-70 a month make me sad. I pay $53 a month for 10M down and 1M up. The 20x2 tier is another $20 on top of that. I always thought California had a good tech infrastructure, but apparently it's better in other parts of the country. I would GLADLY pay $120 a month for 1Gbps internet plus TV. Heck yeah![/citation]
Around here it's $60 for 15/3 from Comcast. To be honest, it's good enough for the most part. (threaten to cancel and you might get a lower rate - I'll probably do that once my initial rate is up) But, if I had gigabit internet, would I use it to the max? HELL YEAH! 😀

 

[bebangs]

with this kind of internet, id be happy to use and pay for google cloud services.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

For the price I am not impressed with the TV lineup.

I can understand people being excited about Gigabit Broadband service but what happens when I access a web site half way around the world?

 

[HenrikG]

I wish they made this available in the greater Chicago area...

 

[DeusAres]

Please come to Atlantic, NC soon. Centurylink is killing me with this 512kb/s connection. I'm paying $45 per month for download speeds that barely exceed 50kB/s.

 

[Empurfektion]

@JohnnyLucky
You do realize $120 is for TV, Internet, and Google Nexus 7? Most people on ATT, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and others pay WAY MORE than $120 for download speeds of

 

[soulfringe]

I had intended to transfer to UC Irvine next fall so I could be with all my friends in SoCal. But to hell with that. I'm going to explore Kansas City college options now. With 1GB net, who the hell needs friends. You can download new friends. YEA!

 

[aeurix]

[citation][nom]thefiend1[/nom]Just got off a live chat with the google fiber peeps. They said "we have no plans of expanding this outside of Kansas City." Wtf?[/citation]

If they said anything else, people would flood Goog HQ with letters begging to be the next city.

I feel like this is the best case scenario-- a large company with a good customer service reputation and a history of innovation challenging the status quo (getting horrible service for bad prices). If this goes well, with no government intervention to introduce a bill that will stop it's spread, we'll see this start to pop up everywhere. Now let's grab some popcorn, sit back and watch to see who will win... Capitalism (True capitalism) or Government-controlled Capitalism (regulations, lobbyists, corrupt politicians).

 

[jungleboogiemonster]

How about offering internet to areas that don't have it yet? Yes, there are many areas in the US and large segments of the US population that don't have internet access. Let's address that first, then worry about gobs of bandwidth.

 

[ojas]

Man. Wow. I pay an equivalent of $20 for 4 Mbps up/600Kbps down, with 512kbps up/down after 8GB of data use. I would gladly take the "free" plan. $70 for internet is still a bit rich in India.