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silbaco
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Re: Any year now....

Mid 2014 is over a year away. To begin wiring a single city. There is nothing right around the corner about that. Typically companies don't announce projects a year in advance unless they want to please investors. I don't know of ANY investors who are pleased about Google Fiber.

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There are a lot of things that have to happen between now and then. A year is not that far away.
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When they announced KC in March 2011, they said some would be connected by end of year. The first public connection didn't occur til Nov 2012. Maybe with the experience they can get Austin going a little sooner but it took them a year just to lay down fiber around KC before starting the first connections.

It will be interesting to see the terms with City of Austin, if it's similar to the two KC's in terms of relationship with utilities. And will Google do the pre-signup like in KC, which determined rollout order. They might actually be able to deploy faster if Google defines the rollout hoods themselves than play the signup game. It was clear in KC that the higher income areas signed up first, whether logistically easier to start with or not. In Austin, Google could define order by areas that have least path of resistance to deploy - might be faster deployment while giving more time to plan the more difficult hoods.
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I don't see how people don't find it ridiculous that it took that long in Kansas City. Especially when the majority of your deployment is aerial and you have been given the regulatory green light to do pretty much whatever you want.
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How many investors do you know?
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I do not think one will find an investor period that is pleased about any kind of fiber.

Not when they can invest in companies that make huge profits off wireless with 2gb caps and huge overage fees.

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I really don't care about the short-term thinking, quick return investors. I realize they dominate the USA now, and everything seems enslaved to their will, but the longer term, more patient investor is the one who allows the building and growth of industries and infrastructure that really matter.

Props to Google for going down this road in the face of all the naysayers. Google is looking ahead, not just at the pure costs of the Fiber and ISP business itself, but the opportunities that such a great infrastructure can provide, and they will be in the unique position to prosper from it.
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said by xenophon:

It will be interesting to see the terms with City of Austin, if it's similar to the two KC's in terms of relationship with utilities.

And so something in common is that Austin owns the local utilities. That may be a key criteria if Google goes into another market...

»www.kansascity.com/2013/ ··· tin.html
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said by xenophon:

And so something in common is that Austin owns the local utilities. That may be a key criteria if Google goes into another market...

How expensive are pole fees, compared to the rest of the build-out?
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It may not be just about fees. Google mentioned when first selecting KC that logistics to deploy is easier when having fewer entities to deal with.
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Some interesting Q&A. Google says they are working on a small biz plan but nothing specific...

»www.bizjournals.com/kans ··· page=all