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AT&T is fuming at the approval and likely passage of a Nashville, TN, ordinance that would allow Google Fiber to bypass previous obstacles to utility pole access:
Officials in Nashville, Tennessee have voted to give Google Fiber faster access to utility poles, approving an ordinance opposed by AT&T and Comcast. AT&T has already said it would likely sue the city if it implements the new rule. [...] Google Fiber is available in parts of Nashville, but expansion has been slow in part because of how long it takes to get access to utility poles. When Google Fiber attaches wires to a utility pole, other ISPs must first move their own wires to make the pole ready for new wires. The Nashville Electric Service, which owns most of the poles, must also review applications and inspect AT&T's and Comcast's line work before letting Google Fiber attach to any pole. AT&T also owns some of the poles in the city.
The One Touch Make Ready ordinance would let a single company—such as Google Fiber—make all of the necessary wire adjustments itself without having to wait for incumbent providers to send construction crews. Google Fiber applauded the vote last night, saying that "Improving the make-ready construction process is key to unlocking access to a faster Internet for Nashville, and this Ordinance will allow new entrants like Google Fiber to bring broadband to more Nashvillians efficiently, safely and quickly."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @02:10PM
Plus if I were a Google fiber customer I would be concerned. If Google suddenly decides to discontinue their service last minute without warning then everyone in my neighborhood who used Google fiber would be scrambling to find a new ISP last minute. So I'd be calling competing ISP services, it'd be impossible for me to get through because everyone is calling them too, then I may have to wait for them to send me a modem in the mail, then it might turn out that there is something now wrong or incompatible with my cable or phone lines or the lines coming to my house either because I never had their service before or something changed between the time that I've last had their service and now but because I didn't have their service at the time of the change they didn't implement the transition (a transition that they could have made seamless if I had had their service at the time) or maybe something went wrong with a wire they were previously using. But now that they are being overwhelmed it could take forever for them to send out a technician after I've gotten the modem in the mail and diagnosed that there is a problem since I'm probably not the only one with problems.