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Only the hopelessly romantic or complete fools thought GOOG was some altruistic savior of internet access for Everyman. They are a company is business to make money, and building out hardwired internet access across a city is expensive as fuck, where any possible dividends are a long way down the road.
[–]Vloorshad0 points
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They're out to make a buck, but I think I'll be seeing a return on their endeavor soon. I live far enough out that I wouldn't get Google Fiber for decades to come, but the pressure they've applied in a couple of their markets has resulted in the old telecoms expanding their service into rural areas to recover losses. If all goes well I'll be upgrading my 1.5Mb connection to something in the 50Mb range within a couple of years.
Oh I feel you. 3mb here and it's wireless transmitter from the local water tower great little local company though they have comped me every time it has went out. Longest outage was over night do to lighting frying on there end. I do miss blazing speeds of the city but I don't miss being able to touch my neighbors house within my house if I tried
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[–] Paranoidroid 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Only the hopelessly romantic or complete fools thought GOOG was some altruistic savior of internet access for Everyman. They are a company is business to make money, and building out hardwired internet access across a city is expensive as fuck, where any possible dividends are a long way down the road.
[–] Vloorshad 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
They're out to make a buck, but I think I'll be seeing a return on their endeavor soon. I live far enough out that I wouldn't get Google Fiber for decades to come, but the pressure they've applied in a couple of their markets has resulted in the old telecoms expanding their service into rural areas to recover losses. If all goes well I'll be upgrading my 1.5Mb connection to something in the 50Mb range within a couple of years.
[–] flarflar 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Oh I feel you. 3mb here and it's wireless transmitter from the local water tower great little local company though they have comped me every time it has went out. Longest outage was over night do to lighting frying on there end. I do miss blazing speeds of the city but I don't miss being able to touch my neighbors house within my house if I tried
[–] Ghetto_Shitlord 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Capitalism punishes altruism, heavily.