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> What happened to Google Fiber anyway? It's not like Google doesn't have the money to do whatever necessary to make it work. They found out that doing things
by sobkas 5y ago
> What happened to Google Fiber anyway? It's not like Google doesn't have the money to do whatever necessary to make it work.
They found out that doing things in real world is hard. So they took their ball and went home. Pretty usual for them.
- ILMostro7 5y agoIIRC, they bought a company that uses wireless APs to deliver the signals within municipalities/cities. The bureaucracy and cost was too prohibitive for physical fiber. At least that was my understanding of the situation last I had checked.
- vanilla_nut 5y agoWebpass, I believe. How do I know? I’m using it right now! A good internet provider, though living in a snowy city, the signal can deteriorate a bit when you get heavy snowfall. Still usable, but slow in those cases. The symmetrical gigabit is damn nice 99% of the time.
- zdragnar 5y agoThey wanted to know what would happen if people had super fast Internet. All the big players made a show of getting onboard. Experiment success, and they got out... Actually operating as an Internet provider wasn't something they wanted to be part of their core business- they have enough anti-monopoly mumbling associated with their name as it is. As for the experiment... I guess the answer was not much? More high definition streaming, some few companies attempting the streaming of games. It certainly hasn't been the panacea of innovation, but it is also still early days I suppose.