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A free Fiber is not viable on the long run. It looks like dumping to me. It looked more like an attempt to kill competitors than a constructive competitive pres
by chmike 11y ago
A free Fiber is not viable on the long run. It looks like dumping to me. It looked more like an attempt to kill competitors than a constructive competitive pressure.
However I find 50$ expensive. The most expensive offer in France is Orange for 37€ (42USD) for 100Mbit/s download and 50Mbit/s upload. And with this you get 160 TV channels and unlimited phone calls through the fiber.
I have 1000MBit/s download and 250 Mbit/s upload for 26€ (~30USD), many tv channels and unlimited phone calls and fixed IP address (no IPv6 support yet). This allows to use twitch and publish our games. It also allows to do a backup and restore of my rented server in a snap although I could in theory host it at home.
I'm afraid that US people loose the benefit of much cheaper device prices (Apple, etc) on the cost of monthly fee of the Internet line or mobile phone line.
- Dylan16807 11y ago$300 for a teaser connection isn't really that cheap. I wouldn't call it dumping. Note that only the no-monthly-fee plan paid that $300.
- dawnerd 11y agoI'm on a locally owned ISP and pay 50 dollars for gigabit symmetrical. This is in Portland too. I feel that the cities that actually push to have fiber everywhere are the ones that end up with cheaper prices.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoIt isn't much like dumping in the US, where local monopolies are the rule. I pay $120/month for 150/30 cable service in Portland OR, which is pretty terrible compared to many other parts of the world. I can't imagine Google is really interested in becoming another regional monopoly, they are clearly trying to drive the existing ISPs to improve their offerings (since GOOG makes money when more people are online). If killing the competition was their plan, they are certainly doing it very slowly (I'd happily pay them for fiber).