[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

[Bob Kline]

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/google-fiber-will-hit-89-of-neighborhoods-some-poor-areas-miss-out/

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Google announced
yesterday<http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/congratulations-kansas-city.html>
that
it has closed preregistration, with 180 out of the 202 fiberhoods meeting
their goals. People living in one of these neighborhoods can sign
up<http://fiber.google.com/how/> starting
September 13. For $70 per month, residents can get Gigabit Internet, and
for $120 per month, they can get Gigabit Internet service plus TV. There's
even a "free" Internet tier with 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. The free tier
requires a one-time construction fee of $300 or 12 monthly payments of $25,
but Google guarantees the free service for seven years.
**

About the same price the rest of
us pay for about 3% of that bandwidth.

I wonder where Google with go with
this next?  i.e., if that $70 represents
a true service price, I'd think the door
would be open to many other cities,
on the way to creating Google Net.

Even that "free" service works out to
about $45 a year, or less if Google
extends it.

  -- Bob
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