Google Fiber is officially coming to Austin, Texas

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AUSTIN -- Google Fiber is a new broadband Internet network that is 100 times faster than anything available in Austin right now.
“You could upload your entire DVD collection in less than a day,” said Stacey Higginbotham, a senior writer for GigaOM, a tech news site. “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," Austin tech blogger Tom Cheredar with VentureBeat 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.
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Google Fiber coming to Austin | kvue.com Austin


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GOOG SET FIBER GANG
 
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HookersandIceCream said:
Man I would kill for a steady 50 mb/s with a fast ping

Fukk I'm gonna do with a gigabyte
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I already have that but even at times i still have the :shaq2: face.


I cant even wrap my mind around having 1GB of speed. :merchant:

Can you believe even if they did have "down time" shyt would still be nearly 20 times faster then what we have now? :wow:
 
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Malta said:
Google bought the Fiber hub in NYC, we getting it soon breh, we gonna be :blessed:
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You already know Time Warner and Verizon is trying to do anything they can to stop it. I wouldn't be surprised if they all met up to discuss some shark shyt behind closed doors
 
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Malta said:
Google is too big to stop now, they are beyond the control of Time Warner and Verizon :blessed:
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Let's hope breh. These analysts are not that optimistic, but then again everyone is an analyst these days.

With Austin, Texas expected to be named as the next city for the Google Fiber project, possibly as soon as tomorrow, the analysts at Bernstein Research have published some estimates on how the economics are shaping up for the only place where Google has built out services so far, Kansas City. They also sound a note of caution about whether the search giant will ever embark on a nationwide effort: it could cost up to $11 billion to build out gigabit internet and TV service to another 20 million homes to achieve a medium-to-large rollout to compete with other providers.
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Using existing providers as a point of comparison (Comcast passes 53 million homes, Time Warner Cable 30 million, and Charter 12 million), Bernstein works out the cost for a 20 million-home coverage for Google, which would give it a 15% coverage and rank it as a “medium-to-large domestic access and pay-TV provider.”

Kirjner and Parameswaran estimate that if Google built out a fiber network to serve 20 million homes over a period of 5 years, “the annual capex investment required to be in the order of $11 billion to pass the homes, before acquiring or connecting a single customer.” There is a big question mark over why, in fact, Google would ever embark on such a project. “It would have limited impact on the global broadband access industry beyond these 20 million homes,” Bernstein writes. As a point of comparison, it was estimated that it cost Verizon, before it halted FiOS buildout, about $4,000 per home to connect it to its fiber network.

Then again, the Kansas City project, covering neighborhoods in both Kansas and Missouri, has always appeared to have a two-fold purpose. It is a test for Google to see whether it could be a viable infrastructure-based service provider; and it is a way for Google to test out new applications and services, and to amass more data about consumer behavior.

Analyst: Google Will Spend $84M Building Out KC’s Fiber Network To 149K Homes; $11B If It Went Nationwide | TechCrunch
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