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 | | | Re: milestones coming.. just because those neighborhoods signed up does NOT mean Google is going to select them. They can have the entire north side register but doesn't mean they'll get service right away - if at any. | |
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| Re: milestones coming.. said by 25139889:just because those neighborhoods signed up does NOT mean Google is going to select them. They can have the entire north side register but doesn't mean they'll get service right away - if at any.
the sun rose and set yesterday, the sun rose and set the day before.. following your idea, patterns dont' seem to predict future outcomes... so let the incubment phone & cable comapnies stick their heads in the sand, hire up some people and circle the wagons (all that construction of fiber was just a bluff.....) what happens happens. | |
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Other things, this is being advertised daily on our most popular radio stations and everyone in the selected "Fiberhoods" are on board. I drive through these areas every day, and you can drive past a block without seeing 3-4 Google Fiber signs in yards and people walking their dogs with G.Fiber shirts.
Locally, any one who is skeptical of the price tag, they are still lured in by the free broadband for 7 years for paying $25/month for 12 months.
My Fiberhood was one of the first with first priority access, and September 30th is when Google Fiber announces who gets hooked up first. They will definitely be installing Fiber this winter without a doubt. | |
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| | Go Google Go The people are responding. For the doubters who kept saying this would fail, here's the proof you needed.
People are ready for some real change, and Google Fiber is going to give it to them.
I just wish KC was a Comcast market instead of a Time Warner market. Comcast needs a lesson taught to them even more than TWC. | |
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|  atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | Re: Go Google Go Yes. Google Fiber will bring real change. And in a year or so, Google will hand the project off to someone else, and then the price increases will begin.
Enjoy your progress. | |
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| | | atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | Re: Go Google Go Like they were going to shake up the wireless market during the spectrum auction? A lot of people are going to get their hopes let down. If you have not learned after all this time about Google, well, you will never learn. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Go Google Go I'm pretty sure the people in KC are pretty happy now. | |
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"All they were after was open access," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
"Google didn't really want to buy spectrum. They got what they wanted and they got it on the cheap. It was a nice strategy well executed."
Before the auction, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt assured reporters the California firm had no intentions to buy the spectrum, "build a network and put all these mobile devices out there."
"Wouldn't it be better if all these other companies do that and we just sit back and reap a benefit?" Schmidt said. "The auction is a tactic to an outcome and the outcome is end-user choice." | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Go Google Go what's his excuse on the Nexus One not taking off and shaking up the wireless maket with unlocked phones? that never happened either, and it actually stopped. | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: Go Google Go What are you talking about. It's still going, they don't sell the nexus one anymore because that was 3 years ago. Now you can buy an unlocked galaxy nexus for 350 dollars off contract. | |
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join:2000-10-07
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| said by 25139889:what's his excuse on the Nexus One not taking off and shaking up the wireless maket with unlocked phones? that never happened either, and it actually stopped.
Uh, feel free to swing over to the Android Forum and let all of us Galaxy Nexus owners that have unlocked and rooted our phones that they don't exist since they were "stopped". | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Go Google Go That fee also covers unmetered voice and text, as well as the subsidy on the phone. The subsidy is why smartphones are $40, not tethering. | |
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El Paso, TX | said by atuarre:Like they were going to shake up the wireless market during the spectrum auction? A lot of people are going to get their hopes let down. If you have not learned after all this time about Google, well, you will never learn.
Meh, I don't care. Eventually we're all going to get much faster speeds with or with out google (and with or with out the incumbents)
So for now, lets let those that are getting ahead of the curve enjoy the ride. I wish i was one of them T_T | |
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| | | | | not true. Google has to operate the network FOR ONLY 2 years. After 2 years they can offload it if they don't see it making them any money. Not the other way around. you can NOT force a company to keep a network there if it is NOT going to make them any money. Google and any other company would sue the locals beyond what they could even count in zero's if they did that.
Also the only way Google is going to see any profit from their HSI offerings is to pump that data back to their datacenter and ship it direct to their peering partners- meaning watch for L3 and others to start crying and depeering with Google. | |
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| axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | Comcast caps were reasonable when they were introduced, though obviously they become unreasonable if never raised. TWC is moving a lot of resources to Kansas City because of Google, the competition is good for their customers. I had Comcast a while ago, never had TWC but from what I've heard I'd rather have Comcast. | |
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| |  trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
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kudos:2 | Re: Go Google Go I have TWC now and never had a problem. | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: Go Google Go If it wasn't for this site you'd be dealing with a 40 GB cap with TWC right now. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Go Google Go LMAO! you really think that the reason for that was because of Karl? LMAO! Drinking the Karl-Aid eh? Total BS! Him and Philip are twins and people on here like you believe EVERY damn thing that they "publish/write about". TWC's caps are coming and it will happen. The same as people like you claimed that AT&T would NEVER cap their users either. Once ALL the major players start doing it, everyone else will follow, it's only a matter of time. | |
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El Paso, TX | Re: Go Google Go said by 25139889:LMAO! you really think that the reason for that was because of Karl? LMAO! Drinking the Karl-Aid eh? Total BS! Him and Philip are twins and people on here like you believe EVERY damn thing that they "publish/write about". TWC's caps are coming and it will happen. The same as people like you claimed that AT&T would NEVER cap their users either. Once ALL the major players start doing it, everyone else will follow, it's only a matter of time.
I personally can't wait for them to do this. Their attempt to limit progress in broadband will help usher a new era in broadband. | |
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El Paso, TX | said by axus:Comcast caps were reasonable when they were introduced
I disagree. There was no technical merit for the caps back then. And what we see today, is clear evidence of that.
You see, they aren't as stupid as people might think they are. They saw what a few people were using the internet for back then (video) and they they put those caps in place to try and prevent everyone else to start doing it. | |
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join:2004-07-11
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kudos:3
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| and all the free press they're generating.. .. you called it perfectly, Karl.
this is a stall from the recent Highly publicised, Annoucment Day event.
rather than it coming out as another short delay, they whipped in to a google fiber frenzy competition.
little to do with sensible availability by construction completion, We'll make you BEG like dogs "do me first", " no, do me first"... you sense-less bitches, you fell for the old pill in the t-bone bit, and they'll have you at their pleasure.
I expect this from KC Missouri where even the public officials appear to have fail basic biology, really basic law, stone age sociology, and common decency but KC, KS? you people are smarter than................never mind! | |
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|  tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
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kudos:1 | Re: and all the free press they're generating.. said by tshirt:I expect this from KC Missouri where even the public officials appear to have fail basic biology, really basic law, stone age sociology, and common decency but KC, KS? you people are smarter than................never mind! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow. What an idiot.
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| | | Totally agree. And i'll bet along with others Google will NOT keep this beta project AFTER 2 years. They'll sell it to Surewest and it will be done with.
Shareholders are going to want $$$$ brought back in and Google won't be making it. And on top of that peering partners are going to want equal traffic passed back and forth- something that may NEVER happen, what happens then? Google basically looses a LOT of traffic or has to start paying for it, regardless of how big their fiber network is.
Google has turned this into a cat and mouse show and Karl is making out on it with his pay check from them over and over again. | |
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| tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3 Reviews:
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| Google has made the big investment, I sure they'd like to keep tight control/collect data for many years.
the only reasons they might pull the escape clause is if
1} some controversial issue arises that makes them look bad (people running porn, or pirate bay type sites) that they can't quash. (though bailing out or turning the network over to DoJ as the third party, won't help the Google legacy much) Hope that ToS is really tight.
2} something causes people to hate google (like finding out those in house security cameras run all the time, or an embarassing leak of the users info, etc.) that causes the experiment value, use of the network under there management to drop to worthless, PR sucking values.
3} somewhere down the road they decide they have learn all the can, and it isn't possible/worthwhile for them to pursue fibering additional cities. | |
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