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Fiber is still alive. Here's an announcement from last month. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/google-fiber-building-in-louisville-despit
by idank 9y ago
Fiber is still alive. Here's an announcement from last month.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/google-fiber-building-in-louisville-despite-lawsuit-from-att-and-charter/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/googl...
- dannyr 9y agoAlso it pushed the broadband industry forward by providing competition. AT&T and Comcast stepped up their development of Gigabit Internet in the US.
- mtgx 9y agoAnd they stopped doing that in the same week Google announced that it would stop pushing Fiber.
- rayiner 9y agoMaybe. AT&T started deploying FTTN to major cities like Houston and Chicago in 2005-2006 (four years before Fiber). Their gigabit buildout was based on that original plan (which dates to SBC). Comcast has been on the DOCSIS upgrade treadmill for years. In the 7 years before Fiber they went from 8 to 100 upgrading to DOCSIS 2.0 then DOCSIS 3.0. Gigabit is another 10x jump over a similar time frame, based on DOCSIS 3.1.
- Animats 9y agoThere was also Verizon FIOS, which started in 2005, expanded to 5 million customers, then stopped expanding much after 2010. It apparently cost Verizon more than they'd expected.