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> the right to move AT&T's equipment around on AT&T's poles to make room for their own without supervision. That makes it sound like Google was being pushy her
by ehsankia 6y ago
> the right to move AT&T's equipment around on AT&T's poles to make room for their own without supervision.
That makes it sound like Google was being pushy here, but in reality, ISPs were being intentionally as slow and obtrusive as possible to cripple Google's expansion, which is exactly why Fiber failed. If they were given X days to do something, they would do it on the (x-1)th day on purpose to waste Google's time and delay them as much as possible.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIt makes sense to be very careful with this sort of thing. Comcast is infamous for "accidentally" severing other ISP's lines whilst running their own. Also, given that Google has been playing the (x-1)th day game with the EU for nearly a decade, and asking for every possible extension in order to respond to even the most basic requests... let's not act like ISPs are bad and Google is good. Google is a bad actor that was trying to edge in on another market of bad actors.