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Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users (www.pcmag.com)
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The company plans on offering the service to a small group of customers in select areas as part of an early access program.

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They've been trying, but the existing ISPs have ironclad contracts with most cities they operate in, making it very hard for anybody else to bring competition to those markets.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Our rollout was severely impacted by political interests, but the Australian government tackled this at a national level with building a National Broadband Wholesale network for all the ISP retailers to resell.

    It was a lot easier however given how underfunded our existing monopoly telco left the old network.

    Unfortunately Rupert Murdoch stated in New York to shareholders that the network would undercut their Australian business, they then used their 67% newspaper market share to back the opposing party and have them downgrade the rollout of the network from fibre to copper.

    Now half the country can't get a full 100mbps and the upload isn't synchronous for 99% of households.

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