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What happened was that everywhere Google Fiber went, the big ISPs would suddenly offer competitive pricing and service (which of course they could have done all
by readams 4y ago
What happened was that everywhere Google Fiber went, the big ISPs would suddenly offer competitive pricing and service (which of course they could have done all along), which meant it was hard to get customers.
Also, they would fight tooth and nail to prevent Google from being able to actually build the infrastructure. One way was to make it needlessly onerous, slow, and expensive to access utility poles.
This is all straight from the Standard Oil playbook.
- midoridensha 4y ago>Also, they would fight tooth and nail to prevent Google from being able to actually build the infrastructure. One way was to make it needlessly onerous, slow, and expensive to access utility poles. It's funny how Americas look down on "third world" countries as being hopelessly corrupt, when in reality America is just as corrupt as any of them. In highly developed nations with rule of law, they don't have these problems.