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High initial investment costs (for laying fiber etc) won't stop someone like Google. What stopped Google fiber was regulatory barriers set up by municipalities
by pitaj 7y ago
High initial investment costs (for laying fiber etc) won't stop someone like Google. What stopped Google fiber was regulatory barriers set up by municipalities to help their local ISP cronies.
> Sorry, but equating regulatory capture with "government regulations" kind of triggers me.
Regulatory capture is composed of government regulations.
> fixing your gov might be the more important issue
Exactly
- scarface74 7y agoWell, Google isn’t blameless here. Google was also either hubristic or incompetent and thought just because they were full of smart people, could “fix” anything. Google Fiber and “shallow trenching”. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/google-fiber-exits-louisville-after-shoddy-installs-left-exposed-wires-in-roads/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl... It’s also not exactly unlike Google to abandon projects for the new ooh shiny.
- tehwebguy 7y agoYeah, it stretches the imagination to no end to think Google couldn’t make something work due to regulations.
- pitaj 7y agoAs I understand it, shallow trenching was a way to try to get around incumbent lock-in. They were trying to bypass the barriers that were raised by regulatory capture.
- scarface74 7y agoNo they did it just for speed and cost. Once they got permission and right of way access from the city to do trenching, it wasn’t a different permit to do shallow trenching as opposed to the regular method.