Google Fiber

[steve dave]

Nope, checked, Sarasota 

[mocat]

Nope, checked, Sarasota 

Population of Sarasota, FL = 51,917

Population of Olathe, KS = 125,872

 

[Emo EMAW]

Olathe is no long indian for "duplex."

[hemmy]

Olathe is no long indian for "duplex."

english?

[06wildcat]

Nope, checked, Sarasota 

Population of Sarasota, FL = 51,917

Population of Olathe, KS = 125,872

 

And of those 52k people only 2,500 are young enough to understand what the Internet is outside of AOL.

[jtksu]

Bet Olathecat is all at Sarasota guy buy also because of Fiber.

[Skipper44]

Nope, checked, Sarasota 

is  that  what  happened  to Saul?

[WillieWatanabe]

reddit is totally butthurt about it.

[Stupid Fitz]

reddit is totally butthurt about it.

Does he live in my neighborhood?

[wabash909]

When Westwood becomes a Fiberhood in Summer 2013 I'm going to so stick it to Time Warner.

[Institutional Control]

 I googled "fiber". Now what?

[CNS]

I googled "fiber". Now what?

That's all you have to do.   They will call you for an appt shortly.

[WillieWatanabe]

reddit is totally butthurt about it.

Does he live in my neighborhood?

yes

[pissclams]

omaha internets!
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/01/gigabit-internet-centurylink-omaha-nebraska/

[Super PurpleCat]

omaha internets!
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/01/gigabit-internet-centurylink-omaha-nebraska/

$150 a month for standalone service

 

[sonofdaxjones]

Why is a $150 a month funny?

[Pete]

I am going to contact the Overland Park Mayor

Contact the Mayor
When the mayor is not in his office, his executive assistant can help with:

Scheduling appointments;
Proclamation requests;
Ceremonial duties such as dedications, grand openings, ribbon cuttings, and welcomes for groups meeting in Overland Park;
Acknowledging achievements of Scouts; and
Inquiries regarding appointments to city boards and commissions.
Mailing address
City Hall
8500 Santa Fe Dr.
Overland Park, KS 66212

913-895-6000

I am going to ask him to be a ceremonial guest at our event called "WHY THE eff DOES OLATHE GET GOOGLE FIBER AND WE DON'T, GOD DAMNIT 2013"

[Super PurpleCat]

Why is a $150 a month funny?

Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink. 

What will happen is barely anyone in Omaha will go for the service at that price, CenturyLink will point to the low signup numbers and proclaim that see, we were right, the average consumer doesn't want this "high end" service and will cancel all their plans to rollout fiber in other areas, which is what upper management wants because the upfront costs (CenturyLink is the old Sprint local telcos).  Then later they will scratch their heads as Google expands into even more markets.

It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell.  They have decades of monopoly utility thinking still sitting in management so they're still averse to the concepts of "competition", "vision" and "risk".

[sonofdaxjones]

Why is a $150 a month funny?

Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink.  It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell.

Because Google is going to come back and want to sell a whole bunch of additional content.   If you bundle with CTL, the 1 Gig is only $80 bucks a month.   Consider that on the Enterprise side 1 Gig runs about $800 to $1200 or more a month and that's from a whole list of Telecom's and Cable Companies etc. etc.

[Super PurpleCat]

Google with TV is $120, still cheaper than data only from CenturyLink. 

Enterprise pricing and service is different than consumer.  And "ISP costs" have to be taken with a giant grain of salt, these are the companies that take broadband building grants from the feds and line their pockets with them.

[pissclams]

Why is a $150 a month funny?

Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink. 

What will happen is barely anyone in Omaha will go for the service at that price, CenturyLink will point to the low signup numbers and proclaim that see, we were right, the average consumer doesn't want this "high end" service and will cancel all their plans to rollout fiber in other areas, which is what upper management wants because the upfront costs (CenturyLink is the old Sprint local telcos).  Then later they will scratch their heads as Google expands into even more markets.

It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell.  They have decades of monopoly utility thinking still sitting in management so they're still averse to the concepts of "competition", "vision" and "risk".

google's business model is much different than a traditional ISP.  they're more a marketing sales company than an ISP.  their cost model is subsidized very differently. 

[sonofdaxjones]

Google with TV is $120, still cheaper than data only from CenturyLink. 

Enterprise pricing and service is different than consumer.  And "ISP costs" have to be taken with a giant grain of salt, these are the companies that take broadband building grants from the feds and line their pockets with them.

Uh, you don't have to tell me this SPC, I understand it completely, and the broadband grants are pretty much a joke, and only cover a fraction of the actual costs involved, if they're even available at all to companies like CTL.

It all goes back to what I've been saying, companies like Google are not "Carriers of Last Resort" and thus do not have the same cost models and regulatory requirements.  They can come in and cherry pick the most lucrative potential markets and ignore others entirely and will have no repercussions whatsoever in doing so. 

[Super PurpleCat]

Why is a $150 a month funny?

Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink. 

What will happen is barely anyone in Omaha will go for the service at that price, CenturyLink will point to the low signup numbers and proclaim that see, we were right, the average consumer doesn't want this "high end" service and will cancel all their plans to rollout fiber in other areas, which is what upper management wants because the upfront costs (CenturyLink is the old Sprint local telcos).  Then later they will scratch their heads as Google expands into even more markets.

It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell.  They have decades of monopoly utility thinking still sitting in management so they're still averse to the concepts of "competition", "vision" and "risk".

google's business model is much different than a traditional ISP.  they're more a marketing sales company than an ISP.  their cost model is subsidized very differently.

That's what the mobile phone market said a few years ago.

[pissclams]

non sequiturs aside, if you don't think that google can offer sub-market rates on broadband internet service because they're selling all of the information that they collect from you using their internet and television service to marketing companies, and then using that revenue to offset any potential loss they sustain from the internet/tv business, then you're dumb

[Pete]

non sequiturs aside, if you don't think that google can offer sub-market rates on broadband internet service because they're selling all of the information that they collect from you using their internet and television service to marketing companies, and then using that revenue to offset any potential loss they sustain from the internet/tv business, then you're dumb

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