[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[Steve Burnett]

I live in Raleigh and AT&T's U-verse is available, but their Giga offering 
isn't available in my area - at least not yet.
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Wes Garrison wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Scott Chilcote
>> scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com
>> Cary, NC USA
>>
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