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Fiber is also still running, somehow. I don’t think they’re expanding much if at all but I’m shocked it hasn’t been sold off.

Frankly, I’m just as shocked they didn’t go full throttle with it either, because talk about a data selling gold mine with all that traffic

While I’m on that subject, it could have been a real opportunity for them to push fiber + YouTube TV as a package. Google isn’t good at making original content but at some point they have made a software + services play that makes such a package more palatable and user friendly, imagine subscribing to a YouTube channel and it becomes a channel as part of the TV app for instance. A lot of people watch channels like this as it is.



They've been expanding again, and are now offering 8gbps in my area. I've been very happy with it, and I'm still only paying $70/month.


That’s absolutely amazing. Besides hosting at home, do you feel any difference vs say a 1gbps line? Surely most servers won’t saturate this when downloading or browsing?


Our ISP (Sonic) offers 10Gb uncapped for $50/mo.

I don't feel any difference over our previous 1G service, other than it never lags, even if multiple kids are streaming video and I have a backup running. The biggest difference is that it's half the price of the 1G service that ran over AT&T's fiber.


I really wish Sonic would expand out to West Marin. My only options are comcast and starlink.


Ouch. I was ecstatic when they started offering service in my neighborhood in Alameda.


Google literally abandoned Fiber in at least one city and left roads in disrepair via “shallow trenching”

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...


> talk about a data selling gold mine with all that traffic

IIRC, Google doesn't sell user data. But it's plenty valuable to them all locked up.


Google Fiber is actually working on expanding to where I live, I keep getting ads on Youtube for it.




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