Google Fiber Strategy
The cluster focuses on Google's Google Fiber initiative, debating its true purpose as a catalyst to force competitors to offer faster, cheaper internet rather than a genuine ISP venture, along with its slow progress, challenges, and market impact.
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Didn't Google try to disrupt the market with Fiber ?
Fast internet is a complement to Google's services. It's in Google's interest to commoditize fast internet. They're not interested in offering Fiber, they're interested in making the internet faster and cheaper, since that helps there core business. So their Fiber investment was the lowest they could get away with to still make other players believe that they just might be serious about it in 2015.
Deploy Google Fiber everywhere?
It sounds like (b) achieved Google's ends. I don't think they wanted to be in the fiber business. They just wanted everybody to have it so that Google could sell them services over it (including the service of feeding ads to them).
didn't google fiber slow down and effectively stop growing several years ago? what happened?
> Fiber- it's hard to tell why Google has allowed this to continue for so long. The only thing I can imagine is that they are somehow using the usage data to generate revenue or ML training data.I'd guess they signed long term agreements with the municipalities where they offer service and they can't find a good way out. That or they have acccess to some resource related to being a residential ISP that they want to use for other things (cable TV feeds?).Fiber sort of fulf
IE Google Fiber, and all the excitement that's generating.
I have fiber that’s not from google at 1 gig/sec for $85/mo in Austin and had it in Phoenix as well. Is it possible google is just an incompetent ISP?
Well google announced they were exploring a fiber rollout in Chicago. Now both AT&T along with Time Warner Cable have 1G service throughout parts of the city.Alternatively, one can look at this not as a failure, but as a success. The point of Google fiber was to force carriers to get faster internet to everyone. It appears that it has been working. This benefits google directly as their properties such as Youtube can deliver more and better content.For Google, this is a win/win pr
Google is doing this with Google Fiber and it's not exactly making a ton of progress :(