AT&T steps up to google, looks at 100 cities to give gigabit internet to.
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Google Fiber could get some competition from AT&T’s own ultra-fast fiber network.
On Monday, the telecommunications giant announced that it was looking to expand its AT&T U-verse with GigaPowerSM service to 100 markets.
No, it’s not the catchiest name for a broadband service. But it does promise blazing-fast speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, the same as Google Fiber.
Right now, U-verse is only in one market: Austin, Texas. The 100 additional markets AT&T is eyeing include 21 major metropolitan areas like Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Don't get too excited, Chicago! The company has only said that it would "work with local leaders in these markets to discuss ways to bring the service to their communities."
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This is great, we really need more competitors in this.
holy shit, did market competition just cause a big corporation to improve their profit through methods other than fucking the customer over?
Nowwwwwwww.
What's the price? Since you know they'll pull shit about pricing.
Miami yesss
COME TO NY
WERE ONE OF THE MOST POPULATED STATES AND MY INTERNET IS ASS
anyways really happy to see competition
[quote]Don't get too excited, Chicago![/quote]
Too late.
CAPITALISM, HO!
Seriously though, this kind of thing should influence on ISPs work. We are the United States of America for fuck-sake. We should already have five gigabit internet by now.
gigabit potentially coming to jax and its not google
is this real life
North East/New England still doesn't get any love.
Central Illinois never gets anything good :v:
Yay for orlando!
price price price price price.
This shit hardly matters if they cannot beat google's price.
Well, in the cities google is already in that is... if they can get to the areas google cannot, then they get the geographical monopoly anyway.
Does this mean that rural internet users are going to be even more forgotten about?
[QUOTE=Xubs;44608349]we're still getting somethin potentially closer to home than those silly new englanders[/QUOTE]
Chicago and St. Louis are indeed closer to me than anything is close to New England. Poor New England.
Hell yes San Jose. We already have att and I'm fairly certain Google isn't coming to my side of town. Hopes restored...for now.
I'm not sure it'll be a direct pricepoint that determines whether or not it'll be good so much as fucked up data caps and massive throttling at peak hours or for users who actually utilize it more than others
Fuck Nashville come to Memphis.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;44608177]holy shit, did market competition just cause a big corporation to improve their profit through methods other than fucking the customer over?[/QUOTE]
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Watch as they implement a 5 GB cap, and from then on it's throttled to 10mbps for the rest of the month.
Yeah you guys I'm sure they'll really fuck us over with price, they have so many incentives to do that, like...you know...not making money!
Considering that switching to this super-duper internet is optional as all hell they have almost no reason to charge an arm and a leg because then people just won't care enough to switch. Now...if somehow an area has ONLY this gigabit internet then they have no choice, but such scenarios aren't going to happen.
Too bad AT&T is shit, and borders on illegal practices, your supposed $35/mo bill turns into $350 after 3 months on top of surprise charges that they flat out refuse to claim responsibility for each month and require you to get your bank to threaten them to get them to stop
I wouldn't use AT&T if they were paying me in blow jobs, even though the internet, while only DSL, was still faster and more reliable than my cable ISP. My county sucks for internet
Google has an office in Boulder and Colorado get's fucking dick. Comcast is just giving everyone fucking rim jobs over here.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;44608177]holy shit, did market competition just cause a big corporation to improve their profit through methods other than fucking the customer over?[/QUOTE]
Competition breeds innovation and progress. Those are the rules of nature, to an extent.
Still, I expect them to still fuck customers in the ass whilst sounding them in a twisted interpretation of giving someone a reacharound.
Yay, market mechanics, yay
[QUOTE=be;44608591]Yeah you guys I'm sure they'll really fuck us over with price, they have so many incentives to do that, like...you know...not making money!
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yeah you clearly have never dealt with AT&T or any mainstream telecommunications company for that matter
Nice to see Nashville is on that list, but they'll never bother sending it out to where I am. Lazy, worthless fucksticks.
Yay Cleveland! Hopefully it branches out to the burbs.
Capitalism ahoy
COME TO CLEVELAND, YOOU CAN PUT UR BILLBOARD UP ON THAT BUILDING THAT USED TO HAVE LEBRON'S FACE ON IT
[QUOTE=Venezuelan;44608806]yeah you clearly have never dealt with AT&T or any mainstream telecommunications company for that matter[/QUOTE]
I wasn't aware that being in a particular industry completely changes the dynamics of economics/businesses
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