Meanwhile SpaceX spends billions launching thousands of satellites into space and wreck the environment just so people can doomscroll their slop. When all we need are governments building some basic infrastructure like fiber internet for a fraction of the money.
Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
Submitted 8 hours ago by cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hope@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My prior city ran a survey on whether they should build out fiber to the homes around the city, since they were building their own fiber infrastructure anyway. Despite the city saying it would be cheaper and faster than the existing 0 or 1 options people had, my fellow residents cried communism and the city government scrapped the idea. Infuriating.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Americans are too stupid to vote in a lot of cases. why even hold a vote on something like this at all? just get it done. don’t bother asking permission from people who speak up without understanding the question
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Don’t worry, even if they welcomed it international telecom companies would sue to block it anyway.
Bristlecone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Seriously Man, more junk in orbit
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
and also help rig elections
Paradox@lemdro.id 8 hours ago
Add another to the graveyard
kautau@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
For those who’ve haven’t seen it:
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
299 entries… That makes it 300! Congratulations!!
ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
They just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Dodged a bullit today. Pretty lucky
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ugh.
The service has been quite good for ten years.
Guess it was good while it lasted.
dhtseany@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
That tends to be the general way things go with all Google products.
nunesgh@piefed.social 4 hours ago
It hasn’t hyperscaled to a billion users, so it’s not “Google scale” enough for Google. Wait… The US doesn’t have a billion people… 🤔
protist@retrofed.com 5 hours ago
Fuck my life. I’ve had Fiber for 11 years and it’s been leaps and bounds better than the alternatives, AT&T and Spectrum/Time Warner. Am I going to have to start calling customer service to threaten to leave in order to keep my same price again?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Another one for the Google graveyard.
db2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m shocked. Totally shocked.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
db2@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
the Avenger Thor sarcastically expressing disbelief
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Great. Can’t wait for price increases or data caps or both.
db2@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Both, along with reduced speed and support that is next to useless.
scytale@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
And here I am still waiting for google fiber to reach my part of the neighborhood. I guess another one bites the dust.
maplesaga@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
There’s an obvious reason as to why. Municipal bureaucracy makes it unfeasible.
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
If only companies were allowed to just do what they wanted without rules and regulations… What a beautiful distopian nightmare we would live! Also the line would go vertical! One can only dream
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I’ll never understand the fanboys who glaze google.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Google only does two things.
Roll out a product REALLY well then ignore it forever leaving it an amazing state that everyone loves and is insanely consumer friendly before randomly deciding to axe it with no reason.
Or roll out a product REALLY well then promptly over monetize it forever ruining everything good the engineers did in the first place. Thus making it very extremely unconsumer friendly.
They have no middle ground.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
When Google Fiber came here every ISP shat themselves and dropped prices, and raised speeds. And Google Fiber has been by far the most reliable ISP.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
by the time fiber appeared, SONIC appeared just before, and others was also appearing at the same time in the bay area, fiber was in for a big competition already.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
google fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
roguelazer@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic.net has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.
I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
i always wondered if fiber is going anywhere, like most google venture it fails poorly, because they couldnt expand, i suspect waymo will go the same way.
we currently have sonic for like 10 years and it was great.
fubarx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hugging Sonic.
browned_bear@programming.dev 7 hours ago
lol
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 43 minutes ago
Everything Google touches turns to ash.