Analyst: Google Fiber Threat to Cable Is ‘Like Ebola’

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Do you want to know the real reason Google Fiber has such a low subscriber count right now? Because they haven't brought it to cities where you and I live. ;)

“Google Fiber is a bit like Ebola: very scary and something to be taken seriously... but the numbers are very small, it gets more press attention than it deserves, and it ultimately doesn’t pose much of a risk (here in the U.S. at least),” Moffett said in a note Thursday.
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I actually have a video of this dangerous "Ebola" virus in the wild. Waiting on Youtube to process the video. Stay posted!
 
Of Google Ebola could spread just a bit more north to Canada there would also be many, many volunteers.
 
Jesus wept!
how can anyone use an analogy based on a virus that actually kills people to sensationalise something no one really cares a toss about.
Piss poor journalism
 
sfsuphysics said:
Well there ya go, ONLY 875Mbps when they promised me a full 1Gbps!
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And I can almost guarantee that the limiting factor is the computer the test is being run from.. or from network equipment that will not actually do a full 1Gb.
 
Too bad Google's ebola hasn't spread out from its actual headquarters.. tons of people here who would sign up in a heartbeat.
 
raglafart said:
Jesus wept!
how can anyone use an analogy based on a virus that actually kills people to sensationalise something no one really cares a toss about.
Piss poor journalism
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An opportunity to repeat a politically motivated falsehood.

"Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth."
 
He shouldn't be to blasé about Google growth. Now with poles and conduits being opened up with title II things should get very interesting.
 
Google Fiber is successful in demonstrating that if you, the customer, wanna be treated like a moron then the cable companies are happy to oblige with great skill, making tons of profit off your sorry hide by selling a fraction of what a free market could've provided.
 
And the reason they haven't brought it where you live is they can't. It's a wonderful tech demo, just like AT&T's fiber but frankly Google has a next to zero chance of getting enough investment money to make it happen and make it profitable. They know it too. It's about the press not really about choice for any significant population.
 
Cystic fiberosis?
I'll never even see cable where i live...im currently snagging some xfinity wifi from a neighbor with an outdoor pole mounted 24dbi antenna...living out of town has its drawbacks
 
Anemone said:
...Google has a next to zero chance of getting enough investment money to make it happen and make it profitable.
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Google, at this point, does not need "investment money". They are in a position to finance projects, not looking for venture capital. More people with faster internet access means more people using Google services, which gives Google more advertising impressions and more data. In this case Google's interest aligns with consumer interest (faster internet).

Google pours money into projects that don't necessarily show a direct impact on their balance sheet. I'd love for fiber in my area to be one of those projects.
 
jfreund said:
Google, at this point, does not need "investment money". They are in a position to finance projects, not looking for venture capital. More people with faster internet access means more people using Google services, which gives Google more advertising impressions and more data. In this case Google's interest aligns with consumer interest (faster internet).

Google pours money into projects that don't necessarily show a direct impact on their balance sheet. I'd love for fiber in my area to be one of those projects.
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Code is significantly less expensive than physical infrastructure. If there's an issue with some lines of code, a couple of engineers can fix it and push it out nationwide rather rapidly. A single break in a 48 strand SMF takes a day if you're going balls out and requires dozens of specialists and a lot of very expensive, very precise, very specific equipment. Equipment that is utterly useless outside of the specific task.

When you have a million miles of cables exposed to every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a backhoe, you see how this could get... problematic.
 
If they were to come to the Boston area, I'd drop Verizon FIOS the same second it became available, early termination fees be damned.

If it were in my general area, but not available at my address, I'd even move a town or two over.

The very thought of someone living in an area where Google Fiber is available and not taking advantage of it is dismaying...
 
Steve said:
Do you want to know the real reason Google Fiber has such a low subscriber count right now? Because they haven't brought it to cities where you and I live. ;)
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Directions: Adults take one 'Goober Fiber' per day for relief of constant constipation while living in the big city.

Idea: Relocate where the fiber is. :D
 
Odnocer said:
Idea: Relocate where the fiber is. :D
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I'd certainly do that if it were nearby, but I don't want to live in any of the hell holes where they currently have it deployed.

Well, I guess Austin isn't too bad, but other than that...

No way in hell I'd even consider moving to the south or midwest. I'd die before I do that.
 
jfreund said:
Google, at this point, does not need "investment money". They are in a position to finance projects, not looking for venture capital.
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Exactly. There was a story in the news a year or two ago talking about how Google was sitting on more cash than they knew how to reinvest properly, and they really wanted to reinvest it rather than pay dividends.
 
Google Fiber is like Ebola for its customers too or at least like a really weird, endless probing at an attractive price.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041484769 said:
I'd certainly do that if it were nearby, but I don't want to live in any of the hell holes where they currently have it deployed.

Well, I guess Austin isn't too bad, but other than that...

No way in hell I'd even consider moving to the south or midwest. I'd die before I do that.
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They've got it over here in Provo, Utah. So, not quite the midwest or the south, but now it depends on how much you like Mormons. :p
 
I envy those of you without any stake in where you live that you can move to where the fiber is. Me on the other hand as a home owner don't exactly have the luxury, because even if I did want to sell and rebuy there is so much hassle with doing it that it wouldn't be worth the fiber at the end of the rainbow.
 
[L]imey;1041483345 said:
Fiber Myalgia?
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