Alphabet/Google's spending on Google Fiber will be scaled back dramatically, due to high costs and the company falling far short of its 5 million subscriber target (there are around 200,000 customers instead):
[The Information] also reports that CEO Larry Page has demanded that Fiber "reduce the current cost of bringing Google Fiber to customers' homes to one-tenth the current level" That should be interesting. Google Fiber will be scaled back to just 500 employees, half its current staffing.
But wait. Wasn't Google "killing any doubts about its national ISP intentions" just two months ago? Sort of. From now on, Google will focus on selective wireless, rather than wireline infrastructure. It's a lot cheaper. The San Jose Mercury was the first to report the scale-back a fortnight ago.
Also at The Information (paywalled), USA Today, eWeek, and Salon. Ars Technica also has an article about Google Fiber doing battle with AT&T over access to utility poles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @04:10AM
First they bring passive connectivity (fiber) so that anyone not wanting to use it can say no.
Then they bring an active electromagnetic attack so that it is always there, passing through your hardware at all times. (Don't forget that it is dangerous EM radiation that you did not ask for, and as if mobile phones/towers weren't enough.)
Then their hardware and software (Android, for example) will connect to it, uploading your data and downloading updated spyware.