[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[Wes Garrison]

Well, I would like to point out that AT&T is bringing their own Gigabit
fiber to the Triangle, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem.  (including Apex,
which apparently may be left out of the Google Fiber lovefest)

http://www.att.com/att/gigapowercities/

Of course, this has nothing to do with Google bringing fiber to the area...

Supposedly will be completed this year.

-Wes

_________________________________
Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
pager:   (919) 869-1744
fax:       (919) 932-5051
__________________________________
"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from email."

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com>
wrote:

> On 01/28/2015 09:06 AM, John Vaughters wrote:
> > I do not understand all the negative sentiments on Google. They are
> doing what every great American Company has done in the past. Use new ways
> to further their business. That's all there is to it.
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> It's not hard to find places to poke holes in Google's reputed
> greatness.  They are a company with a poor-to-nonexistent customer
> service record, stepping into a market where customer service competes
> to be the worst possible.  They are positioning themselves to be the
> sole communications provider for our entire region.  They will greatly
> increase our broadband speed, but does this mean that we need to link
> hands and sing their corporate anthem ("I Feel Lucky", sung to the tune
> of "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story) until the glow gradually fades?
>
> I don't think that anyone is opposed to Google (or any other business,
> great or otherwise, American, foreign, or international) furthering
> their stockholder's interests.  What I think that a lot of the public
> opposes is business that seeks to gain by using their financial might to
> limit the rights of their customers.  For example, the right to benefit
> from competition, the right to protect their privacy, or the right to
> develop new alternatives to the services that they control.
>
>    Scott C.
>
>
>
> --
> Scott Chilcote
> scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com
> Cary, NC USA
>
> --
> This message was sent to: Wes <wes at xitechusa.com>
> To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that
> address.
> TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> Unsubscribe or edit options on the web  :
> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/wes%40xitechusa.com
> Welcome to TriLUG: http://trilug.org/welcome
>