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posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the non-soluble-fiber-is-good-for-digestion dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"Google has officially invited 34 cities in nine metro areas to become the next batch of the Google Fiber rollout.

Google said it 'genuinely would like to build in all of these cities,' but that the complexities of deploying networks may not allow it. 'During this process, we will work with each city to map out in detail what it would look like to build a new fiber-optic network there,' Google said. 'The most important part of this teamwork will be identifying what obstacles might pop up during network construction — and then working together to find the smoothest path around those obstacles. Some might be easy, some might take some creative thinking or a few months to iron out, and in some cases there might be such local complexities that we decide it's not the right time to build Google Fiber there.'"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by neiras on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:40AM

    by neiras (2155) on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:40AM (#3169)

    The geek in me applauds Google for spreading high-speed access in spite of the big incumbent providers down there in the States, but the tin-foil hatter me yells NO MORE GOOGLE PLEASE.

    I mean, they make browsers, have full root access on your Android phones, track your location, know your personal idiosyncracies and who your contacts are, host your email, DNS, spawn glassholes and robot cars... It's mind boggling.

    I want to cheerlead this, and I'm happy for the folks who will get fiber access, but yeesh. Google.

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  • (Score: 1) by takyon on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:29AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:29AM (#3201) Journal

    Just bump that $70/month figure to $75/month, and get a VPN.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by geb on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:14PM

    by geb (529) on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:14PM (#3403)

    No matter who your ISP is, it's already fairly worrying how much you have to trust them. There's only a single, rather shaky, layer of defense against man-in-the-middle by an ISP.

    On balance, I'd be marginally more inclined to trust google than one of our local ISPs.