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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by greggman on Thursday July 26, 2012 @02:02PM (#4297592)
Yes! This is what happened in Japan. The telcos dragged their feet. Dial up Internet was pay per minute and adsl was $60-$90 a month. Yahoo Japan came in and offered adsl 1mbit speed for $20 a month unlimited. That is the moment Internet usage took off In Japan.

The telcos lowered their prices to match. Yahoo doubled the speed for the same price. That continued up to at least 8mbit speed for $20 month

Similar things need to happen here

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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by GuiA on Thursday July 26, 2012 @03:41PM (#4298167)
Same thing happened in France with Free.
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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by agumonkey on Thursday July 26, 2012 @03:45PM (#4298200)
The 0$ offer reminds me of Free too. I wonder if they could be partners to deploy fiber access in France.
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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by justincormack on Thursday July 26, 2012 @05:19PM (#4298798)
I get my internet for under $10 a month for 14Mb (in UK). Paying that little I dont mind providing my own ipv6 tunnel and using google name servers. I used to pay for service instead, but cheap works too.

I might switch back to service if it cost less than $50 per month, but I dont really need support for adsl.

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