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If you have the largest online advertising and marketing company in the world telling everyone that an ISP sucks... well, then guess what the ISP will do? Eith

• mbreese 13y ago
  In the absense of meaningful competition, they'll likely just laugh. Still, it's good to have someone call them out.
  • dredmorbius 13y ago
    Which suggests that it would be in Google's interest to start fostering some competition. Hrm.... They've been playing with that in the fiber-to-home space. But running cable is expensive. I'm familiar with some wireless Internet providers in a few markets. The cool thing is that they can poach high-value, high-concentration subscribers first. Since the model is based on transmitters, typically rooftop installations, and the like, if they can hop onto a building, run Cat-6 throughout, and plug it in, they've got the whole building, plus can run local connections throughout the neighborhood, and beam line-of-site to other tall points. It's a pretty cool gig. Thinking maybe you set that up in a few major markets as a competition play.