[Google] Fiber dream ends, what next?

[Stephen Partington]

I am loving my Cox fiber.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 7:10 PM Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:

> Yeah,
> I will stick with cox and their coax method. It’s worked so far.
>
> Btw, century link was in the neighborhood last week with a bunch of sales
> people trying to push fiber optic. They laid a main trunk up 83rd ave here
> about 2 years ago. I asked the sales person if they would be willing to run
> fiber right up to my door. The answer I got sounded a lot like marketing
> speak. When I pushed, they admitted that it would still be pots lines from
> the nearest fiber node to my place. Once that was admitted, then the real
> truth started coming out about line replacement costs, etc. needless to
> say, not worth it.
>
> -Eric
> From the Central Offices of the Technomage guild, Infrastructure
> development and implementation Dept.
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
> https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/07/google-fiber-louisville-shutting-down/
>
> Google Fiber has been dying on the vine a bit now, but typical google,
> anything that has problems they just whack anymore.  Are you glad or sad
> they didn't come here, more than the 2 people that actually it in some
> foreign territory?  Better to have never loved than loved and lost?
>
> Better or worse, that few years Google was pushing Fiber, they got Cox
> scrambling to at least pretend to push more fiber/gigabit technologies,
> until they smelled blood and decided google wasn't worth continued effort
> to defend against, going back to coax and much more status quo.
>
> Centurylink has to move off 2-wire tech as their only option for evolution
> in anything new beyond 150mps speeds, but don't expect them to ever
> retrofit old properties (me, probably you too) soon.  Not sure what they
> will do with old dsl like my area, but give up and not offer better
> service.  They can only bond 2x 70mps channels on old 2wire tech, cox can
> push gig today if they wanted to.
>
> If you don't have fiber now, you'll never have it likely with either
> provider any time soon.  Cox Coax can evolve/compete with fiber, CL DSL not
> so much.
>
> -mb
>
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