Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks agogoogle fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.
jqubed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.