Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and TV Officially Launched

[ubercake]

It seems like there ae only at most two choices in each market.

Two players in every market has easily led to price fixing. This market definitely needs more competition. Happy to see Google in this space.

 

[puddleglum]

[citation][nom]DeusAres[/nom]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.[/citation]
You and me both. Out west I pay $42 for Centurylink 1.5mbps and often get speeds like yours. Now you know why CL has just been voted The Worst telephone company.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]jungleboogiemonster[/nom]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.[/citation]

That would be far less profitable. If people in the few places without internet are fine without internet and if their area has no internet, then they are probably in a lightly populated and likely secluded area, then just how much money would Google lose from extending to them? Google would spend a lot of money expanding anything to them, even a cheaper, lower bandwidth service, yet get little payoff. I think that a better solution would be to ensure that they get wireless coverage and give them wireless internet connections before any hard connections are installed in the area.

 

[jungleboogiemonster]

Wireless would be fine, and it doesn't need to be high speed. It just needs to be functional. Could you imagine how far behind rural areas would be if telephone service was never extended due to costs? How about mail service? There would be no small businesses, there would be no industry, there would be a very high rate of mortality due to lack of 911 service and the list goes on. Some of the same is becoming true due to the lack of the internet.

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]That would be far less profitable. If people in the few places without internet are fine without internet and if their area has no internet, then they are probably in a lightly populated and likely secluded area, then just how much money would Google lose from extending to them? Google would spend a lot of money expanding anything to them, even a cheaper, lower bandwidth service, yet get little payoff. I think that a better solution would be to ensure that they get wireless coverage and give them wireless internet connections before any hard connections are installed in the area.[/citation]

 

[zak_mckraken]

Dear Google,

Please come to Quebec.

Sincerely,

zak_mckraken

NOW SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

 

[sp0nger]

EXPAND EXPAND NOW!

 

[Guest]

This is an exciting developement. Just remember that your connection doesnt dictate your actual speed when the rest of America is covered in shitty copper. We need a few major cities in every state to adopt something like this to lay a good infrastructure. Then it can spider web to the smaller communities and cell towers. Wire the whole fucking country with fiber...that's the dream. Maybe the government should spend a few billion on this instead of tanks and planes and other bullshit.

 

[Guest]

This is an all around good deal for kansas city residents. I'm paying $45/mo for 6mb download and 1mb upload speeds. While google is offering the same speeds for free.

$25 more for 170x better speeds is great!

 

[eddieroolz]

More ways for Google to retrieve valuable information!

...hmm, I wonder who's at my door at this hour.

 

[DeusAres]

More ways for Google to retrieve valuable information!0

...hmm, I wonder who's at my door at this hour.

They can have ALL my info....and my MONEY.

It'd be worth it considering the slow connection I have now. 50kB/s download speeds just doesn't cut it these days. Especially when video games range anywhere from 5-20GB. Takes me 6 hours just to download ONE gigabyte worth of data. It's ridiculous.

Take my advice: if you don't have to, don't move/live more than 40 miles outside the city limits (unless there is some type of dedicated ISP in that particular area). The peace and quiet is great and all...but the internet speeds completely suck.

 

[Guest]

you all are complaining about your expensive internet. while here in rural alaska we are payin upwards to 190+ for 256kbs down and 56kbs up, with latency averaging 1400ms and a monthly cap of 2gigs. just to get my internet connection back up from getting disconnected cost me 200.25 today.

 

[DeusAres]

you all are complaining about your expensive internet. while here in rural alaska we are payin upwards to 190+ for 256kbs down and 56kbs up, with latency averaging 1400ms and a monthly cap of 2gigs. just to get my internet connection back up from getting disconnected cost me 200.25 today.

All the more reason to complain. Our government needs to get off their lazy asses and lay down some fiber. That's ridiculous. No one should have to pay that much for internet like that.