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I'm confused - what does a PDF showing their sales pitch have to do with the Google project?

• phlux 16y ago
  It shows they do a very substantial amount of cable and fiber installations. That packet, being confidential, is submitted when they bid on work and attempt to get large projects. The words of the installer were "Yeah" to my question about the install being for Google. If this were some po-dunk little company, and they did not have such a strong sales sheet - I would be less-inclined to think that installer was telling me the truth. The fact is that I didnt reveal all info about myself - I asked him if he was installing for the [google code name for the FIOS project] and he said yes.... so - all the information that I have, leads me to believe them - though, obviously it is circumstantial.
  • shotgun 16y ago
    Yes, but all it means is part of SF is getting fiber. Could this just be a new line for added redundancy for their Stanford "beta" project? I'm not sure what list of cities other people are referring to...in the PDFs? Or the fiberforcommunities.com list of cities that responded to the RFI?
    • phlux 16y ago
      Google has a list of the cities that appied for and (may?) receive the FIOS offering. Its in the original story link.
      • Nrsolis 16y ago
        GOOG isn't offering FiOS. That's a Verizon thing. A passive optical network with asymmetric bandwidth thing. What GOOG is doing is a single fiber per house going all the way back to a CO.
      • shotgun 16y ago
        Reassuring to know a list of chosen cities hasn't been leaked.