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With respect, you don't know who my local government representative is or how effectively I can persuade him. The question I asked was what policies, not how t
by eck 9y ago
With respect, you don't know who my local government representative is or how effectively I can persuade him.
The question I asked was what policies, not how to persuade politicians to pass them.
- notyourday 9y agoThat's why Google Fiber failed.
- rayiner 9y agoThe opposite is true: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-kansas-city-taxpayers-support-google-fiber https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-kansas-city-.... Google got tons of concessions from Fiber cities that other providers don't get, such as free power and free use of public property. There was nothing special about Kansas City--cities were falling over themselves to offer Google concessions in return for getting Fiber.
- notyourday 9y agoGoogle fiber failed http://fortune.com/2017/03/27/google-fiber-expanding-slowly/ http://fortune.com/2017/03/27/google-fiber-expanding-slowly/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/google-curbs-expansion-of-fiber-optic-network-cutting-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/google-curbs-e...
- super-serial 9y agoGoogle fiber failed because carriers would fork and eventually drop Android unless Google got out of the ISP business. But now the carriers are buying up tech companies like Yahoo, their services are going to get preferential treatment so tech companies are screwed.
- notyourday 9y agoThat's laughable. If Google was to take a VZ, there would be no VZ. Same goes for Comcast, AT&T etc. The reality is that Google has no interest in taking on carriers. There's nothing sexy is digging treches and hiring Fat Joe, who belches, farts in a workplace, drinks a litter of coke, votes Trump and goes to work at -4C to splice fiber. You won't get accolades. You would only get shit if fiber is out and Paris Hilton can't watch her Netflix.
- madengr 9y agoI live in Overland Park, KS and I’m still waiting for GF. They have ground to a halt.
- exelius 9y agoGoogle Fiber failed because being a telecom network operator means tying up billions in capital assets in your infrastructure and then only making 10% margins. Google’s business model is built around low capex and 35% margins. It’s simply a terrible fit for the other side of the company. Exponential growth becomes logarithmic growth and drags down their financials if they scale out too far.
- notyourday 9y agoGoogle Fiber failed because it was a software company that has engineers that have never seen a prism decide they can take on VZ. When Warren Kumari gets less accolades than a random Google SRE you have a real disconnect with reality.