Google Fiber coming to Austin

Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by protomyth on Saturday April 06, 2013 @04:18PM (#5504876)

Telecom is weird. Here are some plans from a small city in ND:

  $34.95/month* - High Speed Advantage - up to 15 Mbps down & 3 Mbps up
  $54.95/month* - High Speed Advantage Plus - up to 15 Mbps down & 10 Mbps up
  $104.95 to $114.95/month - High Speed Extreme Advantage - up to 50 Mbps down & 25 Mbps up

They have optical lines they keep adding and no bandwidth caps.

(apparently contrasting crappy service in Silicon Valley to rural areas is downvote worthy)

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Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by banachtarski on Saturday April 06, 2013 @05:24PM (#5505117)

I think what you're experiencing is the situation where people execute the bearer of bad or unwelcome news.

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Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by protomyth on Saturday April 06, 2013 @06:34PM (#5505310)

Probably. It's funny how small groups tend to do great telecom service and large companies don't. Kinda relates to a startup mentality.

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Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by rdouble on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:06PM (#5505552)

Which city?

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Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by protomyth on Saturday April 06, 2013 @10:23PM (#5505859)

NDTC in ND, so the Devils Lake region.

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Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by wmf on Saturday April 06, 2013 @05:33PM (#5505139)

Due to cognitive biases, anecdotes are worse than no data. Definitely downvote worthy.

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Re:Google Fiber coming to Austin by protomyth on Saturday April 06, 2013 @06:31PM (#5505305)

Then you should probably flag half the stories on the front page because that's is what most of them are. We aren't doing research studies here, we are talking about how chaotic telecom is and expecting everyone to provide all the pieces is just not going to happen.

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