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That's a lot of words to not actually tell you why they're pulling out of Louisville. "not living up to the high standards we set ourselves" is about as helpfu
by ACow_Adonis 8y ago
That's a lot of words to not actually tell you why they're pulling out of Louisville.
"not living up to the high standards we set ourselves" is about as helpful as hearing over public transport intercom "there has been an incident".
- owenmarshall 8y agoAs they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. https://imgur.com/a/7lHiWZR https://imgur.com/a/7lHiWZR That's a picture of a road post-fiber install. The groove is where the fiber was placed. That black snaking rubber was what they sealed it with. Now imagine that, but across their entire service area.
- WhatIsDukkha 8y agoSource? If that's accurate, it's comedic anyone thought that would work.
- owenmarshall 8y agoI live here - that's almost exactly what it looks like outside my kid sister's apartment ;) For a local news source: https://www.wdrb.com/news/belknap-neighborhood-residents-concerned-over-sloppy-installation-of-high-speed/article_4bc2a61e-8640-57f0-aba9-3dd4cb3d39e5.html https://www.wdrb.com/news/belknap-neighborhood-residents-con... Here's an article proclaiming that this is how Google would "outbuild their rivals": https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/photos-how-google-fiber-is-using-shallow-trenching-to-outbuild-its-gigabit-rivals/18/ https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/photos-how-google-fibe... I cannot possibly oversell just how terrible the work was here. Yes, that is indeed a fiber optic cable two inches under a city street, covered only by expanding foam rubber. Yes, someone really did think "yeah, this'll be just fine."
- takeda 8y agohttps://www.wdrb.com/news/google-fiber-announces-plan-to-fix-exposed-fiber-lines-in/article_fbc678c3-66ef-5d5b-860c-2156bc2f0f0c.html https://www.wdrb.com/news/google-fiber-announces-plan-to-fix... I guess they eventually said "screw it, we will just pull out"