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[Indig0]

Something interesting is going down concerning a new 'something' called Google Fiber. Whatever it is, it appears to involve Google owning a physical store front, which is something they've literally never had before.




According to the Official Youtube channel, some kind of announcement will be made in the next half hour or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZVqPuq81c

Obviously given the name it looks like Google is going to introduce it's own fiber based internet service.

Edited by Indig0, 26 July 2012 - 03:55 pm.

[Darkademic]

My guess is a cryogenics facility. They've worked out how to keep people in suspended animation.

[Jellyfist]

My guess is a cryogenics facility. They've worked out how to keep people in suspended animation.

Damn if only!

Its TV, basically.

[Seahaven]

I think you guys are reading too much into the name, it's probably just Google expanding into the textile fibers industry.

My guess is a cryogenics facility. They've worked out how to keep people in suspended animation.

I'd sign up right away. Fast forward me to August 25th please.


Edit: Looks like it was announced a year ago: http://en.wikipedia....ki/Google_Fiber

Edited by Seahaven, 29 July 2012 - 10:48 am.

[CCN]

Google wants you to have smooth bowel movements, heard it here first.

[Devlin1991]

The other Big ISP's are shitting themselves at the moment, Google is one company that they can't bully out of the market easily and its a company that would be willing to dump the large investment needed to get the fibre to more homes. ISP's in the US especially are being stupid over bandwidth caps and milking every last penny from customer's as they can. I would expect that google wants to expand into the netflix style movie on demand and part of that is getting much faster download rates to a larger percent of the population.

Edited by Devlin1991, 26 July 2012 - 05:45 pm.

[ReaverMage]

Yet more power to google... Can you imagine what would happen if they shut down all their services in every sector for just 1 hour?

[Reel]

Yet more power to google... Can you imagine what would happen if they shut down all their services in every sector for just 1 hour?

A lot of raging teens because Facebook is down?

[ReaverMage]

A lot of raging everyone because everything is down you mean

[Jellyfist]

The other Big ISP's are shitting themselves at the moment, Google is one company that they can't bully out of the market easily and its a company that would be willing to dump the large investment needed to get the fibre to more homes. ISP's in the US especially are being stupid over bandwidth caps and milking every last penny from customer's as they can. I would expect that google wants to expand into the netflix style movie on demand and part of that is getting much faster download rates to a larger percent of the population.

that's clever but extreme....

They have Netflix built in.. Which is kinda cool. My bandwith is wayyyyy to low to game and watch movies

[CCN]

https://fiber.google...ns/residential/


Crazy, we need this in the UK. I'm in central london and I either have to deal with caps or upload too low to stream....

However 70/mo is quite pricey, I know they give you a lot for it but yeah... Maybe if I shared it with neighbours 0-o

[MAlandM]

So what is Google Fiber?

[slowreflex]

So what is Google Fiber?

It's Google's fibre optic internet rollout business:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9v11qJTG8o

[Seahaven]

[Aurielia]

Reminds me, I sucked at monopoly

EDIT:

Mmm to be fair i don't suck,... i'm just too impatient to play it properly.

Edited by Aurielia, 29 July 2012 - 01:36 pm.