More Detail on AT&T's Austin Fiber to the Press Release

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more fiber to the press release from the big 2
Google needs to hurry the hell up

Google has rolled out nothing in Austin - YET

And Google has rolled out nothing yet in Austin either. At least AT&T is planning on starting this December. When will Google, who has promised rollouts in multiple cities, roll out something other than in a couple neighborhoods in KC?

Coincidental - NOTHING to do with Google Fiber

This is entirely coincidental. AT&T was loong planning to offer this product. And Austin was decided for reasons other than Google Fiber coming to town. It is all merely coincidental and has nothing to do with Google.

Google needs to rollout in a major city of each of the national ISPs (Verizon, Cablevision and the other cable companies) and watch how fast those fat cats get on their butts and start competing with real speeds.

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This is exactly what google wanted. To push the envelope. Once you have "gigapower", everything can live in the cloud. Disk drives/flash will be a memory to consumers.

It's unfortunate how they will only prob deploy where there is competition, but as they say that is where the action is...

The 300/300 is probably because they are doing metro-e and that means they are subscribing 4:1, which the latest gear does, hence the 300/300

Re: Coincidental - NOTHING to do with Google Fiber

dont you mean files lawsuits to make them burn thru all their cash so nothings left for the network.

yawn.
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1G/1G with a 150gb cap. YAY!

Confirmation on the cap? That doesn't make sense, and if it doesn't make sense it's probably not true. IMHO 999GB sounds like a capricious number that AT&T would throw around versus say the 10TB Verizon soft cap.

AT&T is a me-too company. I don't think I have seen an original thought out of them ever, so I don't expect one, ever. It's like working for the government, or in the case of AT&T a quasi-governmental agency.

Paper launch

I'm in Austin and am a less than a half a block from a U-Verse cabinet and can only get 3Mbps DSL due to older building wire. I don't expect that to change. I live in a neighborhood right next to downtown where rents are $1800/month for 2 bedrooms in newer buildings.

Time Warner has been very busy however doing something around my neighborhood lately- whole fleets of trucks are parked at times as groups of workers go block by block on the poles.

I'm expecting awesome deals and speeds unique to this city on TW within a year on cable.

Real competition is good.

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And the more providers that are doing, the more it gives Google the option to back out saying their study worked and they're leaving the industry.

Re: Coincidental - NOTHING to do with Google Fiber

lawsuit for what?? As long as Google is treated the same as the other carriers, there should be none. The only city that said no to Google was Overland Park. Why take on the risk of Google just to maybe have their network built in 5 years.

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TWC could be installing CableWiFi

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Here you are trying to rain on the parade.

You simply can't give credit where credit is due because you clearly dont own Google stock. Otherwise you would be up on that pony jockeying the hell out of it like you do the other crap companies you blindly support and yet they do so much less for "us".

That would be fine with me, google destroys more value than they supposedly create.

"GigaPower" at 300mb doesnt make much sense either but we arent questioning that one are we?

Being it is uVerse I am going to say there is a 250GB cap in place.

Will they have better TV bitrates and more streams in the

Will they have better TV bit rates and more streams in the same areas as well?

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I get it, but I was questioning the 150 GB assertion.

And if the local cable provider doesn't have caps, this can be an issue and they will need to remain competitive. As for google, well they just set the bar so high if the others can be me-too well all the better.

And like I said AT&T is a me-too company, so no original thought.

Re: Coincidental - NOTHING to do with Google Fiber

AT&T didn't announce anything until the day that Google announced GFiber. So I don't believe what you're saying.

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Hopefully that means that TWC is not only installing CableWiFi but also upgrading their plant to 1GHz...and cleaning up the upstream side of the plant...so they can do 8x4 (or maybe 24x4) bonding. I'm tired of sitting at 4x1; anytime I go to a Comcast area I'm seeing 8x3 or 8x4 if the modem supports it.

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well even better for AT&T in that case they get the play the
"well we offered Googles speeds at the same price but people didnt want it" card

Actually, far more Google stock holders have come out against Google Fiber rather than for it.

Only for your company. To the rest of KC and the other places they go to, they create more value than Comcast probably ever will.

Of course. They don't like it when a company spends the profits they leech off of for the betterment of the company's future. They want their short sighted returns here and now, they don't care if what they do makes the company a better company down the road.

It is all about the instant gratification.

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Eh Cox does 8x4 here as well, but it's not without issues. Dropped packet city, so i ended up going back to CenturyLink 40/5 DSL and while it was a "10Mbps" drop from cable, it's been much more consistent and stable than Cox could ever produce.

Cox actually has a really good Cable network here for the most part (by far one of the best maintained ones i've ever used), but it also comes at a price for their services.

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Cloud still has lag and when bob in the backhoe cuts the wires then what do you do?

Re: Coincidental - NOTHING to do with Google Fiber

Re: Will they have better TV bitrates and more streams in the

It shows more HD stream will be offered but doesnt say if the bitrate will be increase for each stream.

build faster, google!!!

Ordinarily I don't like Texas, but I have a friend in Austin so I'll cut that city some slack.
It's time for Google to build this fiber out faster and break records for deployment times not just the fastest speeds to residential consumers at the cheapest prices.