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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by bound008 on Thursday July 26, 2012 @02:10PM (#4297633)
They are not doing much of a job of disrupting the tv part of the deal. $120/mo with Comcast gets you the same channels, Internet, dvr, and telephone service with no contract. They also have customer service. When you call Comcast about a service outage, they prorate it every single time.

The real disruption here is free Internet. And for that I tip my hat to google.

Disruption to cable would be a la carte channel selection in any market.

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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by jonknee on Thursday July 26, 2012 @03:15PM (#4298012)
No, the real disruption here is speeds 50x faster without any caps. There is no comparison with Comcast, but their fast package of 105/10 Mbps is $199.95 a month. Yes, 10 megabits of upload... They have a limited available tier of 305/65 Mbps (FWIW this plan is a day old and probably to fight FiOS Quantum, it used to be 50Mbps) which runs $299.95.

http://www.comcast.com/internet-service.html

tl;dr Comcast is a joke.

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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by repsilat on Thursday July 26, 2012 @06:00PM (#4298978)
Another point of difference is that Google's $120 plan comes with a free Nexus 7 and 2TB of storage.
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Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing by Scene_Cast2 on Thursday July 26, 2012 @05:11PM (#4298766)
The idea is that TV is "obsolete" because of the Internet (see Hulu, Netflix, etc).
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