You're right for Google Fiber's failure being political, but that article is pretty garbage, mainly points 2 and 3 being price and 'partnerships'. Google's ent

You're right for Google Fiber's failure being political, but that article is pretty garbage, mainly points 2 and 3 being price and 'partnerships'. Google's entire plan wasn't to make an insanely popular internet offering that generated an overall profit within 10 years, it was to make internet itself better for _everyone_ so that they can make profit via their other products over the next 10 years - and that meant going into every single market possible and becoming a competitor. They were ready and willing to drop hundreds of millions of dollars in actually getting their network deployed, but at a certain point the lawsuits against incumbents indeed squeezed way too much out of them that it would be truly reckless to continue fighting them in more suburban markets. In this vein, they did succeed in making a lot of people's internet better across the board as ISPs know that municipalities could greenlight access to new ISPs easily or make their own. Now all they need is Starlink to take the bill for rural internet. The fifth point about outages is also terrible as the example of the world series outage was a problem on the network's end with blown generators[0]. It doesn't seem like outages are any more rare on GFiber. 0: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/world-series-outage/#:~:text=Before%20the%20start%20of%20the%20bottom%20of%20the%20fourth%20inning%20of%20tonight%27s%20World%20Series%20Game%201%2C%20a%20rare%20electronics%20failure%20caused%20both%20the%20primary%20and%20backup%20generators%20inside%20the%20FOX%20Sports%20production%20compound%20to%20lose%20power https://www.wired.com/2015/10/world-series-outage/#:~:text=B...