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Usually when people in Silicon Valley use the word "amazing", I roll my eyes. But $0 internet is very amazing. On top of that, $120/mo for cutting edge consum
by pizza 14y ago
Usually when people in Silicon Valley use the word "amazing", I roll my eyes.
But $0 internet is very amazing.
On top of that, $120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers.
- NathanKP 14y agoI wonder how much money Google can make from a single household that is using Google products on the internet? As long as Google makes more money over time than the internet connection costs them, then it could be a very profitable for Google to increase the number of people using Google products and gain great product PR and brand loyalty from these people who get free internet.
- mhurron 14y agoYep, how much monitoring and data collection is Google doing here? I wouldn't sign up for Google provided internet.
- jrockway 14y agoHere's the privacy policy: https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html
- danielweber 14y agoSo it looks like they know which shows you watch (the same way Netflix does). Other departments of google don't know which websites you go to, "except with your consent." There can be a lot of mischief hidden in those 4 words.
- gilrain 14y agoWhile this would normally be a concern, I don't think many people trust Comcast or Time Warner any more than Google.
- mhurron 14y agoComcast and TWC don't wrap all their services in a single, trackable userID.
- MitziMoto 14y agoYeah, If they show me one more ad relevant to my interests, I'm deleting my Google account all together!
- VikingCoder 14y ago"Amazon has found that every 100 ms of latency costs them 1% in sales." "Google has found that an extra 500 ms in search page generation time made traffic drop by 20%." http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/09/23/latency-costs-sales-and-drives-visitors-away/ http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/09/23/latency-costs-sales-and-... I don't think Google plans to bring this level of high-speed internet to everyone in the US, but they're certainly trying to spur the competition on. If people use the internet more, Google makes more money.
- untog 14y ago$120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers. I pay $120/mo in New York and get high speed internet, and cable TV with HBO (conspicuously missing from Google's offering) and ESPN. Don't get me wrong, I'd switch to Google in a heartbeat, but I don't actually think that $120 price point is much of a slap in the face to existing providers. EDIT: and this is just in Kansas City. Given the existing variations in price across the country, I'll be very surprised if we are all paying $120 when (if?) it rolls out nationally.
- oskee80 14y agoWell, that depends on your ISP and where you live. I pay $160/month for a higher-tier internet (Blast) and basic cable from Comcast.
- jevinskie 14y agoHow is $70 w/o TV and $120 w/ TV not a slap in the face to other ISPs when it gives you gigabit without data caps?!
- untog 14y agoBecause most customers don't care about gigabit. I'm a tech geek and I don't care about it- my existing speed (around 10mpbs, I think) has rarely posed problems for me. In any case, $120 in Kansas City is not ever going to translate to $120 in New York City.
- 27182818284 14y agoThis is incorrect. It is why places like T-Mobile run commercials about caps and why there are tons of articles and blogs and Twitter comments about data caps. A lot of people care.
- untog 14y agoThat's all mobile, though (and also wasn't what I was commenting about). My provider (Time Warner Cable) doesn't have any data caps- I know others do, of course.
- nilsbunger 14y agoThis is very disruptive on both ends, free and $120 per month. Hits the cable providers, telcom providers, and even apple, Netflix, Hulu, and roku where it hurts. Nice work google! They are still missing a few key channels - CNN, Disney, and espn - all of which my household can't live without (I know, first-world problems). And I think those are some of the harder, more valuable properties to acquire. Anyone know whether google will be able to get those channels?
- masonhensley 14y agoCutting edge is right... "Record up to eight programs simultaneously, just because you can. And with an unprecedented two terabytes of storage, you will never have to worry about having enough space to record your favorite shows."
- snprbob86 14y agoAnd the included remote is a Nexus 7. Sounds almost too good to be true.
- criswell 14y agoI hope they still provide a regular remote of some sort. I don't want to have to unlock a tablet and go to an app to change the channel.
- duaneb 14y agois $120/mo good? That's more than any other bill I pay except rent.
- smacktoward 14y agoIt's comparable to the price of the usual "Triple Play" Internet+cable+phone service offers from cable companies and telcos.
- olifante 14y agoIt still sounds outrageously expensive to me. In Portugal the cheapest fiber triple-play plans cost $40 a month.
- smacktoward 14y agoI probably should have clarified that it's competitive to those packages offered in the USA. We're used to getting gouged by our telcos here in the Land of the Free :D
- hesselink 14y agoI had the same feeling, but maybe the Netherlands are just cheap. You can get phone/internet/tv combinations here from €40-70. Although the fastest internet connection you get there is usually 'only' 120Mbit.