The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage "GFiber." Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo...
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
But didn’t it start as gmail? Gsuite started like that, idk what else there is. But transitioning from Google X to GX I don’t think is something they’ve done much if at all.
To be entirely honest I thought it had been already until just recently when I saw they wanted to expand to 10G networking. They’ve almost entirely stopped rolling out to new areas from what I can tell
A nearby city was in the running once but it was dropped from the running. high speed Internet is finally becoming at least a little more popular in stone areas. There are a couple companies building that in my area and I got $60 gigabit last year.
This isn't a news community. It's a technology community. Google & Google fiber are technology companies. I didn't see anything in the sidebar saying posts like this are verboten.
There are some keywords missing like ultra durable armored sleeve and maybe localized to fit the language with a literal translation.
For bonus points show something like badly photoshopped lightnings between phone and cable.
(Aliexpress shows "Kirsche MX kompatibel Schalter" for Cherry MX conpatible switches. Not wrong but a bit too literal)
And the best deal available to me, in a major US metropolitan area, within 2-5km of the highway, is 100Mb/s down, 5Mb/s up, for $60/mo. On copper, with no fiber options available.
We just don't get those kinds of prices here for a couple reasons. America is just so big, we largely live in single family homes, finally every company has to build its own infrastructure. Connecting all those individual houses is expensive. So either companies won't or if they do the cost of the Internet access is expensive too.
I think I read somewhere that the US government gave some grants/subsidies to ISPs to build their fiber network? Surely this should translate to cheaper price?
I'm pretty sure it's not because the country is big. It's because couple of companies have effective monopoly and there's no competition. A lot of municipal fibre projects got killed by lobbying and lawsuits and even big companies like Google struggle to enter the market because existing laws protect the monopoly. The government could provide the central infrastructure like it does in Europe but it's corrupt and not really interested in building infrastructure any more.