[quote][b]AUSTIN -- Google Fiber is a new broadband Internet network that is 100 times faster than anything available in Austin right now.[/b]
“You could upload your entire DVD collection in less than a day,” said local tech blogger Stacey Higginbotham. “It's super fast internet, and it's cheap."
No specifics yet for Austin, but cities that already have the service get a gigabit plan for $70 per month, or you can get regular broadband for seven years, for free, if you pay a $300 installation fee.
“For Austin to really compete, we need a gigabit,” Higginbotham said. And very few cities can currently offer that.
"Chicago's doing it, Seattle's doing it and Kansas City has it," she said.
Kansas City won the first Google Fiber bid three years ago, beating out Austin and more than a thousand other cities.
“I have been waiting for Google Fiber since they announced the competition way back in 2010," Higginbotham said.
Now, Google Fiber is expanding, and multiple City of Austin sources confirmed to KVUE News Friday that we will be next on the list.
“That enables collaboration that we haven't even thought of yet, imagine what people could build,” said Higginbotham.
"You get those companies that want to be on the cutting edge and they could move here first and test it," fellow Austin tech blogger Tom Cheredar told KVUE.
“Basically any start-up that could live in a residential house, now it's more attractive to live in Kansas City and the same could happen in Austin," Cheredar said.
The official Google Fiber announcement is expected Tuesday.[/quote]
[url]http://www.kvue.com/home/Google-Fiber-coming-to-Austin-201695291.html[/url]
Same, wish it was in Dallas. Now all of those hipster homeless people with laptops will be able to enjoy watching breaking bad on the streets like never before.
30 miles away from me. So close yet so far. Maybe it will at least scare TWC into dropping their prices a little.
Google should come to Australia and be apart of the NBN movement damnit
Google Ero, the new era of porn
confirmed for Washington D.C. only
Fuck yes.
I want download speeds that are faster than my HDD can write, too, damnit
I hope they can come to San Antonio, I honestly think they should after Houston, because TWC overcharges our bill, just for internet we pay $95, without Television or phone.
And I usually don't make the choices in this house but I think we could get TV and Internet bundled better for the same price or a little lower.
And here I am with a fucking 500Kbs connection
[QUOTE=Starsmine;40184051]I hope they can come to San Antonio, I honestly think they should after Houston, because TWC overcharges our bill, just for internet we pay $95, without Television or phone.
And I usually don't make the choices in this house but I think we could get TV and Internet bundled better for the same price or a little lower.[/QUOTE]
All you can hope it just spreads out from Austin to nearby cities later. I'm disappointed SA didn't get it either :(
Seeing this just makes me jealous. I live in buttfuck nowhere, New York so I know I won't be getting anything near this caliber for a decade.
Wish it was in Poland.
I really hope it reaches me somehow.
YES
[poster] really wishes it would come to [poster's city of residence] soon.
[QUOTE=Liem;40184078]And here I am with a fucking 500Kbs connection[/QUOTE]
I have 400 suck it up.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;40184582][poster] really wishes it would come to [poster's city of residence] soon.[/QUOTE]
Well, I live literally 5 minutes away from what would be called Austin
I'm glad that google is taking initiative to fix north america's shit internet, because god damn $70/mo for gigabit internet totally overshadows everything available in Canada AFAIK. The best deal I was able to find was 250 Megabit for $150/mo with limited bandwidth
[QUOTE=TheTalon;40184003]I want download speeds that are faster than my HDD can write, too, damnit[/QUOTE]
Your HDD can't write with 125MB/s?
Another reason for me to move there.
Thanks Google.
[QUOTE=Elspin;40184816]I'm glad that google is taking initiative to fix north america's shit internet, because god damn $70/mo for gigabit internet totally overshadows everything available in Canada AFAIK. The best deal I was able to find was 250 Megabit for $150/mo with limited bandwidth[/QUOTE]
Im playing $100/mo for 7Mb/s Down, 500k up and I live in a god damn urban area with a fucking datacenter less than 3 miles away
Fuck yeah, im all over this
DAMN IT SO CLOSE TO DFW
Man, that'd be nice if we had that here in the South. We're stuck with ATnT or Comcast, both suck now.
(ATnT's/Bellsouth's DSL used to be good)
houston next please
please
We never get cool shit in Bumfuck, Tennessee.
[QUOTE=Elspin;40184816]I'm glad that google is taking initiative to fix north america's shit internet, because god damn $70/mo for gigabit internet totally overshadows everything available in Canada AFAIK. The best deal I was able to find was 250 Megabit for $150/mo with limited bandwidth[/QUOTE]
To be fair google doesn't make profit from this at all I hear
Their reasoning is, since they are mainly an internet company, the more people are able to "consume" on the internet the better Google will be able to expand future projects, their user base, their ad-base, etc. This isn't like it's a telecom company actually trying to make money off of doing telecom services (which is why such thing is a monopoly). It's google not making money but investing in the future of the internet, so to speak. If the whole world was on google fiber they'd have so much more traffic and so much more content being pushed through their services it'd dwarf what google could possibly get now. It would also allow stuff like 4k streaming and really high bandwidth services like OnLive to -actually- be able to work. Stuff that isn't technologically possible at the moment, and that Google's future is likely interested in being apart of.
So what a better way to ensure that they can direct as much traffic, content, and future internet usage through Google's services and sources for that same content, by upgrading the pipes themselves, and making it as easy as possible for people to consume content and use Google's services while they do it?
It's a long term investment that is betting on the fact that while they might not make much money from fiber now, they might in the future and at the same time ensure that google can stay current in whatever climate the future internet will be like, and have more people than ever be exposed to it's content and advertising (the stuff that directly makes them money).
My 4Mbps connection is crying.
They should really hub it out from Austin and move around to nearby cities. I don't see how that would work in Kansas City, but they could follow I-35 up and bring it to Round Rock, Georgetown, Temple/Belton, Waco, etc.
If there was any mega coporation to rule the world, I'm glad its Google. I can't wait till google fiber hits worldwide. <3
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