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Imagine moving to a place without cable, DSL, or even a wireless provider. Now imagine 5-6 very popular services depend on gigabit speeds in the same way YouTub
by mkr-hn 13y ago
Imagine moving to a place without cable, DSL, or even a wireless provider. Now imagine 5-6 very popular services depend on gigabit speeds in the same way YouTube or Steam depends on cable, DSL, and wireless. How many people would buy a house without a gigabit link in that environment?
My point is that if something changes the SV market situation, like an exodus of investors to Texas or another Google Fiber location, housing prices are going to fall fast as the money leaves.
- lsc 13y agotl;dr: the fiber will come to the consumer, not the other way around. You misunderstand. I'm not saying that gigE isn't great. Certainly within the next decade, (and hopefully sooner) nearly all of us are going to demand gigE to the home. My point is just that the economics of the situation are such that the presence of gigE lines isn't going to move the price of real-estate all that much. In expensive areas, the cost of real-estate utterly dominates the cost of getting gigabit network connections, if all your neighbors want the same speed. The main reason gigabit to the home is unaffordable right now is due to low density of demand, and as you point out, that is going to change.