said by Alcohol:Out of hundreds of millions.
The proposal is a few medium sized cities, not a house here, a house there spread over the nation. Dropping 10,000 connections into five different cities is *way* different than 100,000 into same cities.
We've near-zero context in which to eval social & industry impact
even if we knew the numbers. So, yeah, I say dismissing the impacts potentiated by 50K versus 500K is disingenuous.
That said I'm probably right inline with the average BBR reader in exepecting deployments will be under 250k. But (ostensibly) that's a different discussion and completely unreferenced here.
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along with the line "
while they haven't delivered a single bit yet". A false context setup as everybody knows there's no capability to do so. Snarky and, ultimately, equally unhelpful in conveying the otherwise informative core of the article: framing this connectivity project in terms of Google's business model.