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Slideshow: Google updates fiber offer
Rick Merritt
2/18/2013 5:55 AM EST
Three packages, more to come
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Initial users hop on Google Fiber at competing Mbit rates for a flat connection fee. The search giant uses the sweet deal to force consumers to make a decision fast. It’s much cheaper to wire a neighborhood all at once than doing a truck roll later, Medin said.
Every gigabit subscriber gets a Tbyte of online storage. "It’s amazing what starts to happen when your cloud drive is as fast as your local SATA drive," he said. There are no caps on data use, after all Google wants users to consume more Google services.
For a sweetner, those who take the TV service get a Nexus 7 tablet thrown in as a “remote control.”
Next: This aint YouTube, baby
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Initial users hop on Google Fiber at competing Mbit rates for a flat connection fee. The search giant uses the sweet deal to force consumers to make a decision fast. It’s much cheaper to wire a neighborhood all at once than doing a truck roll later, Medin said.
Every gigabit subscriber gets a Tbyte of online storage. "It’s amazing what starts to happen when your cloud drive is as fast as your local SATA drive," he said. There are no caps on data use, after all Google wants users to consume more Google services.
For a sweetner, those who take the TV service get a Nexus 7 tablet thrown in as a “remote control.”
Next: This aint YouTube, baby
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enf13
2/18/2013 1:32 PM EST
Quoting IP transit prices (1$/mbit) is misleading. Huge companies like Google, OVH, Leaseweb heavily rely on public and private (point to point) peering. Public peering bandwidth is less than 0.1eur/mbit (100G ports @ AMS-IX, DE-CIX 2013)
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fbulk
2/21/2013 12:13 AM EST
How is a graph showing transit prices misleading? It's not stating that's what a service provider's total bandwidth costs are ... just what transit costs.
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iniewski
2/19/2013 11:00 AM EST
Do we really think Google is trying to get into a business of laying down the fiber? I don't think so. They probably want to show that having Gb/s Internet connection is cool. Personally I am not sure why would I need so much data so quickly. My eyes and ears are barely processing all the bits around me already...Kris
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Thomas_Fu
2/19/2013 8:22 PM EST
Internet bandwidth is the stumbling block to cloud computing. Now, Google is moving it.
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DrQuine
2/20/2013 7:41 PM EST
Chattanooga TN is recognized for their 1 Gb/s Internet ... but apartment dwellers must have a landlord that hasn't already committed to a competing (slower) service. Internet speed is wonderful and sometimes reveals that our "slow computer" was actually a slow Internet. Other times, unfortunately, one discovers how slow the destination web site is running.
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