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An update on Google Fiber
- bhiggins 16y agoprediction: project will be canceled.
- woodrow 16y agoMilo Medin was involved early on in the @Home Network -- a profile: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/01/17425 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/01/17425
- jobu 16y agoIt's too bad that none of the stimulus spending over the last couple years went to infrastructure that could actually give this country a future, like community fiber networks. Maybe some more competition from companies like Google can spur the telcos to get moving, but I highly doubt it.
- wmf 16y agoThere's http://www.usucan.org/ http://www.usucan.org/ but it's not clear if or how that will help get broadband into homes.
- Hoff 16y agoHere is a list of Broadband Initiatives Program grants from USDA, the folks with oversight of the rural grants: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/Reports/RBB_report_v16.pdf http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/Reports/RBB_report_v16.pdf Here's one of the groups that is now building out middle-mile optical, as well as two FTTH projects: http://www.newhampshirefastroads.net/ http://www.newhampshirefastroads.net/ Now you could certainly seek to make your case for where the country's spending priorities might be improved. You'd not be the first to seek that, of course.
- Legion 16y agoI'm moving from California out to Austin, Texas, and the one thing that I am dismayed over is the lack of FIOS in a tech community like Austin. It comes as little surprise that Austin is pretty much smack dab in the center of the biggest "responses" circle on Google Fiber's response map: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/static/images/map.png http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/static/images/map.pn...
- foresterh 16y agoAn update to say there's no update?