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Google Fiber - Game-Changer for Cablecoms. ISPs (1 Viewer)

only in KC?

there was a point in time where cities were partnering with telecom companies to offer free internet (maybe wi fi too) to residents. i think the biggest was maybe Philadelphia. those plans sound great on paper but the cost for the service meant the partnerships never worked well. this might be a better attempt to reboot on G's behalf. while i wouldn't bet against GOOG, it remains to be seen if this could work.

 
The whole package sounds interesting - tablet, notebook, DVR/TV Storage, HD.

The TV not include cracked me up.

I already signed up for notice when it's in my area.

I guess they are now a player in the Cable/Internet/TV arena - I guess AppleTV has some competition?

 
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'saintfool said:
only in KC?there was a point in time where cities were partnering with telecom companies to offer free internet (maybe wi fi too) to residents. i think the biggest was maybe Philadelphia. those plans sound great on paper but the cost for the service meant the partnerships never worked well. this might be a better attempt to reboot on G's behalf. while i wouldn't bet against GOOG, it remains to be seen if this could work.
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Kansas City "won" the selection process to be the beta city for the project.
 
Up to one gigabit upload & download speed • Full channel TV lineup • 2 year contract • No data capsNexus 7 tablet • TV Box • Storage Box • Network Box • 1TB Google Drive • $120/mo + taxes and fees
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daaaayyyummmm!
 
'AAABatteries said:
The whole package sounds interesting - tablet, notebook, DVR/TV Storage, HD.

The TV not include cracked me up.

I already signed up for notice when it's in my area.

I guess they are now a player in the Cable/Internet/TV arena - I guess AppleTV has some competition?
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Where do you do that? Looks like all the pre-register stuff is for KC residents only.
 
A Free internet option? Are these guys thinking they start in the middle of the country and build out in all directions? It would be years before they get to me.

 
'Foosball God said:
'AAABatteries said:
The whole package sounds interesting - tablet, notebook, DVR/TV Storage, HD.

The TV not include cracked me up.

I already signed up for notice when it's in my area.

I guess they are now a player in the Cable/Internet/TV arena - I guess AppleTV has some competition?
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Where do you do that? Looks like all the pre-register stuff is for KC residents only.
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http://fiber.google.com/cities/#header=checkIt's just to be notified but this looks really promosing.

ETA - forget promosing this looks ####### awesome

 
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I'm in a suburb of KC, and hope they roll this out to surrounding areas soon. Looking forward to dumping Time Warner Cable. It will be interesting to see the take rate for this within KC,KS and KC,MO proper. If they expand to the suburbs in all directions, there will be significant adoption IMO. Part of the attraction to KC was the ability to work with the local utilities to use their poles to run the fiber. Fewer barriers to entry that way.

 
'FavreCo said:
A Free internet option? Are these guys thinking they start in the middle of the country and build out in all directions? It would be years before they get to me.
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They are building by demand, not by middle of country out. From the link providedWe're building our Google Fiber network by demand—fiberhoods that meet their pre-registration goal will get Fiber service. Here’s how it works:Pre-register• Pre-register by September 9th. You'll pay a $10 pre-registration fee and submit some basic information.• Your fiberhood needs to reach its pre-registration goal in order to qualify for Fiber, so encourage your neighbors to pre-register too.• Once your fiberhood qualifies, continue to rally your neighbors. The order of construction within your city will be determined by pre-registration rankings on September 9th.Choose a package• After September 9th, you'll be able to choose the service package that you want.• To get service, you must choose your package before construction begins in your fiberhood.Schedule• Once we're ready to connect you, we'll get in touch and schedule a time to build Fiber to your home.• We’re working hard to install users as quickly as possible. We expect to connect everyone who has signed up for a Fiber package no later than the end of 2013.Enjoy Fiber • A Google Fiber team member will come to your house to build Fiber to your home and install your equipment.• Enjoy your new Google Fiber connection!
 
One thing I don't get. Do they have to wire the entire town/city?

And is this service faster than say FIOS which I thought was fiber based as well.

 
'NewlyRetired said:
'FavreCo said:
A Free internet option? Are these guys thinking they start in the middle of the country and build out in all directions? It would be years before they get to me.
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They are building by demand, not by middle of country out. From the link providedWe're building our Google Fiber network by demand—fiberhoods that meet their pre-registration goal will get Fiber service. Here’s how it works:Pre-register• Pre-register by September 9th. You'll pay a $10 pre-registration fee and submit some basic information.• Your fiberhood needs to reach its pre-registration goal in order to qualify for Fiber, so encourage your neighbors to pre-register too.• Once your fiberhood qualifies, continue to rally your neighbors. The order of construction within your city will be determined by pre-registration rankings on September 9th.Choose a package• After September 9th, you'll be able to choose the service package that you want.• To get service, you must choose your package before construction begins in your fiberhood.Schedule• Once we're ready to connect you, we'll get in touch and schedule a time to build Fiber to your home.• We’re working hard to install users as quickly as possible. We expect to connect everyone who has signed up for a Fiber package no later than the end of 2013.Enjoy Fiber • A Google Fiber team member will come to your house to build Fiber to your home and install your equipment.• Enjoy your new Google Fiber connection!
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So you have to pay them $10 before they even build the network in your area? Weak. :thumbdown: Other than that, it sounds great. Hope they are able to pull it off.
 
'17seconds said:
Up to one gigabit upload & download speed Full channel TV lineup 2 year contract No data capsNexus 7 tablet TV Box Storage Box Network Box 1TB Google Drive $120/mo + taxes and fees
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daaaayyyummmm!
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Is that 3 separate boxes or 4? eta nvm, I see that the google drive is like a cloud type thing.$2,880 + taxes/fees/installation charges puts it out of my price range.
 
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Pretty cool thing for the city, but it's concentrated in the downtown urban area.

I live 20-25 min outside the city core and I'm guessing I don't get this google fiber service for a year.

I'll be excited when it does finally get to me... it should be excellent.

I don't believe it will be a true gigabit/sec or 100 times faster than my internet connection now... but even if it's 10X faster, that's pretty good.

You have to have your home re-wired like some people did when ATT U-Verse came into play.

I'm guessing this is a great move for a future, but i doubt my computer could even handle the full range of this power, nor would there be many websites or applications that could begin to harness this type of power.

I definitely plan to get it when it comes, but i'm guessing at least a year just for a suburb of KC.. it's going to be years before it makes it around the country.

 
They should include a referral page where you can get folks in your area to sign up and give you something in return. It's already great word of mouth but that would help a little.

 
Only available in two cities but I see this as one of the most disruptive moves in tech in recent years, possibly most since the iPhone. Will depend on execution, but:

Free 5mpbs internet for seven years (with $300 set up fee, so not really free, but you can pay $25/mo and then free after that)

$70/mo for Internet speeds higher than 100x what is available to residential customers today

$120/mo for that and HD TV (they do not yet have HBO, Disney, or ESPN)

with service you get:

HD on all devices

Nexus 7 tablet as remote

2TB storage box

set top boxes w/Internet access built in

1GB Wifi Router

1TB cloud storage

https://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/

 
Good, most of these cable companies can burn in hell.

I lucked out after my most recent move because the power company here ran fiber and has amazing service. $45/mo for 30up/30down and in two years I've had ONE single outage that lasted all of about 2 minutes. In the year prior to that with Comcast I paid more money for 7up/12down and had probably 3 dozen outages (sometimes lasting multiple days) in one year. I probably spent more time on the phone with their tech support than I did actually using their internet.

Yet, 90% of the market here has Comcast because they have those sexy xfinity TV ads.

Our internet infrastructure continues to fall further behind and the greedy cable companies are almost entirely to blame. I hope they all get run out of business so we can actually start progressing again.

 
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They have been buying dark fiber for a while. If successful they can roll this out nationwide fairly quickly. The speeds are just sick.

 
I have never experienced speeds like this but have heard everything is basically instantaneous. Downloading a movie takes about five seconds.

The game changer to me is that they are setting up to

A) Offer free high-speed internet to everyone (they say for seven years, that comes to $3.50/mo with the $300 setup fee)

B) Offer substantially undercuts all current cable-com offers AND offers vastly superior Internet service. I think they get full channel listings soon and do not adjust their price.

 
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So this is more than just ISP?

If Apple came up with their rumored iTV, this type of speed and cutting out the cable companies would be perfect. But Google and Apple won't work together, will they?

 
Google maps is native on iOS so it's not without precedence.

Basically all content providers could benefit from this.

 
'Clifford said:
Any estimates on how long it will be before this is rolled out to all major metros in the US?
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I believe they are prioritizing cities based on what % of the households sign up for preregistration ($10). The deadline is september 9th. That said, I imagine it will be available in most metro areas within 24-36 months - Google didn't plan/announce this for it to be a niche service. They are (obviously) making a play for a big piece of a big market.
 
'NCCommish said:
They have been buying dark fiber for a while. If successful they can roll this out nationwide fairly quickly. The speeds are just sick.
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I read that GooglePlex East, their NYC location (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan) is on top of a major fiber and internet access hub, which is one of the main reasons Google bought it. Could be a major east coast hub for all of this.This definitely feels like the next major game changer.
 
'Abraham said:
'Clifford said:
Any estimates on how long it will be before this is rolled out to all major metros in the US?
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I believe they are prioritizing cities based on what % of the households sign up for preregistration ($10). The deadline is september 9th. That said, I imagine it will be available in most metro areas within 24-36 months - Google didn't plan/announce this for it to be a niche service. They are (obviously) making a play for a big piece of a big market.
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No way.. i bet no one outside of Missouri/Kansas has this for 5 years.It's taken them a year just to get some of the infrastructure started.I won't have it for a year and i'm just outside kansas city.It's going to take a LONG time for this to happen.Which is fine because i see this as a technology for 2020 and beyond... i feel like getting it now is too early... you may have top rate speed but the bottlenecks are just somewhere else... your computer, the other guy's server, etc.
 
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