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Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by tw04 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:22PM (#12220708)
>Fiber providers live and die by their uptake rate.

When their sole source of income is selling broadband. Part of the profit for google fiber includes the ads served up. If you think they don't track ad serving to their own customers based on the IP addresses they're accessing google from, you're crazy.

While I don't think ANYONE outside of Google knows their end-game - it's entirely possible that the fiberhoods are just proving the business model out before further investment.

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Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by amazon_not on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:50PM (#12221402)
> Part of the profit for google fiber includes the ads served up.

The ad income is just peanuts compared to the monthly cost of Google Fiber. We are talking about a few bucks per month for ads versus $70 for fiber. Ads are just not going to move the needle in any meaningful way.

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