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They offered those same deals to any ISP that wanted to offer the same services, guess how many offered?

• rayiner 13y ago
  Google has admitted that they're just doing deployments like Kansas City to push other ISP's into offering higher speed services, which benefits their bottom line as a content provider. If the opportunity was really worthwhile on its own merits, Google would pursue Google Fiber as an actual business. So essentially, Kansas City made a sweetheart deal with the only company that agreed to take it, and that company only took it because they had an ulterior motive. That's a recipe for abuse, and if it had been Comcast rather than Google, people would be up in arms.
  • jessaustin 13y ago
    So both the government and Google left money on the table, so as to benefit the consumer? I can see why everyone is bitching about that.
  • nitrogen 13y ago
    The major cable companies are also content companies, too. Comcast/NBC, Time Warner/Time Warner. Nobody has clean hands. So I say it's worth giving a new player a shot at doing better, rather than conceding the market to the existing monopolies.