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Author: Google Fiber Just Began the "Golden Age" of High Speed Internet Access

posted by martyb on Friday March 11 2016, @05:17AM   
from the back-to-the-early-days-of-DSL dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Susan Crawford, author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age who also ironically shares a name with a telecom fatcat, has published an analysis of the recent Google fiber deal in Huntsville Alabama. This deal differs from all previous deals in that the city will build and own the fiber network and that Google has only committed to lease capacity on it, leaving the city the option to lease to other internet service providers and thus engender competition for internet access. It is a utility model for connectivity that has had great success in other nations, but is contrary to the way American telecom corporations view their role in the broadband market.

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• Re:I'll believe it when I see crews laying fiber. Re:I'll believe it when I see crews laying fiber. (Score: 4, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday March 11 2016, @12:48PM

  by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday March 11 2016, @12:48PM (#316989) Journal

  Perhaps they are waiting for there to be so many potholes that they form a trench along the length of the road.

  Then you lay fibre in the trench, and fill it in. Voila! Two birds, one stone.

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• Re:I'll believe it when I see crews laying fiber. (Score: 2) by snufu on Saturday March 12 2016, @12:06AM

  by snufu (5855) on Saturday March 12 2016, @12:06AM (#317231)

  ... So that's what the city meant with their "Drive for Fiber" program.

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