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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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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

why don’t we focus on getting more people to the very comfortable speed of 70Mbps before we give those that already have a good connection a better one.

Those things are not mutually exclusive and generally not even the same effort

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    But that's my point. Why not put all your effort into getting everyone on comfortable broadband before you focus on getting people who already have fast broadband faster broadband.

    Maybe I just don't understand the USA fiber market as I live in the UK, and if your phone carriers are anything to go off it's probably a mess.

    Because here in the UK a company might own the lines, but you can be with whatever provider you want(you will just have to pay a line rental to the owning company), and the government has had a lot of efforts to get the whole UK on a decent connection. But that's just my thoughts.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Because one thing is a technical barrier, the other is a political barrier.

    You can and should improve your technology as your political employees work on deployment to new markets.

    They're entirely different staff.

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