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Re: Unsustainable said by JasonOD :Not saying google won't prop it up indefinitely, but the financials of offering something for free (5mbps) or 1gbps for $70 even while whoring every scrap of data to generate ad revenue doesn't add up without massive company subsidies. And in this case, the help of Kansas City's anti-competitive easement deals.
Look for big price increases soon, or look for this to be the first and last google fiber 'project'.
It may turn out to be profitable, but only because Google cherry picked the perfect neighborhoods in a city that gave them the perfect operating conditions. The fiber appears to be being deployed above ground, which is a poor solution for the longterm but made deployment much cheaper.
As I have said before, if offering free service and 1gbps service for $70 was practical, the dozens of cooperatives in this country that have ftth deployed would be doing it. But it isn't practical in real world deployment outside these ideal conditions. |
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| In that particular neighborhood it's above ground hookups. In many others they'll be doing, especially with a lot of hirise housing (including mine), they will be using existing underground conduit. |
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| Good. That is how they should all be. Years of being exposed to the elements can impact even the best cables. |
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 Oh_NoTrogglus normalus
join:2011-05-21
Chicago, IL | They will go with what is already in the area.
Above ground stays above ground.
Underground will stay underground |
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