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Just because google fiber had a side effect of helping consumers doesn't mean it was googles motivation.
by Super_Jambo 10y ago
Just because google fiber had a side effect of helping consumers doesn't mean it was googles motivation.
- ethanbond 10y agoWhat reason did google have to believe Comcast was going to "cut off" access to users?
- hydrogen18 10y agoComcast and the other ISPs are ever going to "cut off" access to anything. What they have done and will continue to do is to make it extraordinarily difficult to use other companies services that replace their own. For example, many ISPs today are now putting in bandwidth caps. They claim that they only affect the top 1% of users. This may be true today, but once 4k 60FPS content becomes the norm. those bandwidth caps will affect everyone.
- ethanbond 10y agoI agree with the first point which is why I asked. On the second point, the fact is that while bandwidth caps will affect everyone, so will everyone streaming 4K video. That seems like a self defeating argument.
- twoodfin 10y agoOf course, they won't actually affect everyone. But Comcast can use the threat of enforcing them as a bargaining chip with Netflix, Amazon, HBO/Time Warner/AT&T...
- aklemm 10y agoAt the time there was talk of any semblance of net neutrality disappearing and the internet going the AOL model.