[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[Wes Garrison]

Regarding the oligopoly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaH9DHLqaeg

*warning*
Curse words.  Turn the volume down if you're at work.

-Wes

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Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
pager:   (919) 869-1744
fax:       (919) 932-5051
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:14:03 -0500
> Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't like Google. They scanned everyone's books without seeking
> copyright holders' permission, and at one point planned to sell those
> unauthorizedly copied books. I can show you five other people with five
> equally valid complaints about Google.
>
> But in this case they're busting up an oligopoly that's ruining our
> competitiveness compared to folks of almost every other industrialized
> country.
>
> Even bad guys do good things once in a while, and I'd love to have
> fiber into my house, even if I had to run *everything* encrypted over
> the wire.
>
> Here in Orlando, I'm paying $55/month for 20Mbps down, 1Mbps up. If it
> weren't for Brighthouse, I'd have to sign a year agreement with
> Centurylink to get 3Mbps down.
>
> Yeah, Google sucks, but for whatever reason, they're solving a big
> problem.
>
> SteveT
>
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