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 Post subject: Google’s Internet Service Might Bring the U.S Up to to speed
PostPosted: November 19th, 2012, 7:15 pm 
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The United States needs superfast Internet to compete. Google is pioneering a block-by-block business model for installing fiber.

Bandwidth boost: A Google Fiber technician installs an Internet connection at a house in Kansas City, Missouri.

Google’s effort to install a blazingly fast, gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service in the two-state metropolis of Kansas City—a speed 100 times faster than the national average—is a radical new business direction for the company, and perhaps provides an unorthodox model for how to rewire parts of the United States.

At one level, the project reflects Google's desire to keep developing new businesses by giving people ultrafast speeds and then offering experimental services like Google TV. But if Google’s business model for actually getting fiber built pans out, it may usher in a new era for privately built broadband.

Compared to many countries, the United States has slow and patchy Internet service. While a few areas enjoy very fast service, overall the United States ranks 24th worldwide in speed, with consumers receiving an average of 11.6-megabits-per-second download speeds.

An affordable service that is nearly two orders of magnitude faster began in one neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, last Tuesday.

In planning the deployment, Google carved the metropolis into 202 neighborhoods, and asked interested residents and businesses to pay $10 to preregister for the service. Once a critical mass did so—ranging from 5 to 25 percent per neighborhood (Google calls them fiberhoods), depending on the population density—Google went ahead with the street-level installation. If people reneged on their pledge to subscribe, they’d lose the $10.

The actual service is a bargain compared to many services that provide much slower speeds. Google’s gigabit Internet service is priced at $70 per month. When bundled with TV, the price rises to $120—and Google is certainly pushing that additional service. Users subscribing for a TV service get a two-terabyte storage box for recorded shows and a Nexus 7 Android tablet to use as a remote control. (As a budget alternative, Internet at five megabits per second is available for a one-time fee of $300.)


While Google won’t disclose any numbers about costs or numbers of subscribers, Wandres insists that the strategy is economical. “This is not a beta program or an experiment. Efficiency is a huge focus for us as we build out Kansas City. And efficiency can cut costs,” she says.

The entry of superfast Internet may aid local entrepreneurship. An effort called Homes for Hackers is trying to get Kansas City homeowners with Google Fiber service to give free rooms to developers for three months, and a collection of local startups is betting the service will attract new companies.

W. Russell Neuman, professor of media technology at the University of Michigan, says Google’s effort is certainly novel, but that it is an open question whether it could change the economics of Internet service overnight. “Laying fiber is so far out of the scope of what Google normally does. But does Google know something that Verizon doesn’t know?” he says.



http://www.technologyreview.com/news/50 ... -the-us-up-to-speed/


i soooo want to move to kansas now... i want the tablet.

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I think this would be the only reason to move to Kansas City.

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I cannot wait for the golden age of the internet (ie Google takes over everything).


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It would be nice if we had decent speeds and sane data caps up here in Canada >.>

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Data caps shouldn't exist at all, it's not like piping oil or water, the "reservoir" of data at the pump site never decreases.

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Guess who gets Google Fiber in a few months???

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Cliff Dude wrote:
Data caps shouldn't exist at all, it's not like piping oil or water, the "reservoir" of data at the pump site never decreases.

They don't care, they are just out to rip off everyone as much as possible, welcome to Canada.

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Cliff Dude wrote:
Data caps shouldn't exist at all, it's not like piping oil or water, the "reservoir" of data at the pump site never decreases.

Not completely true; the hardware can only process so much data and has to be upgraded as there are more users and as higher speeds are offered. The problem is the ISPs don't use their profits to continuously upgrade their network. Only when a competitor comes in will they be forced to offer better speeds and caps. Many areas in Canada have no real competition for internet providers.


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