Google will explore bringing Fiber to 34 new cities including Portland and Atlanta

[TruvisT]

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/

Could this mean more fiber and more competition for better pricing?

 

[iWF-Jacob]

Possibly. I certainly hope so! I used to have ComCast, and let me say -- they are the vain of my existence. 

That being said, I currently get internet from my local municipality which runs a fiber network. It's a small town, so obviously wont be up for Google Fiber anytime soon, but I've always been curious how Google would handle a local municipal ISP. Do you think they would compete with that ISP or do you think they would figure out some sort of merger, or to share bandwidth? I know my local ISP gets their backbone from LSN Networks, do you think instead they might team with Google?

 

[blergh]

While i understand that saying ISP's in the US suck ass is an understatement, I'm not sure why you'd want to RENT a service from a company that completely rapes your online presence in terms of integrity.

 

[drmike]

Does anyone have a link to the 34 tentative cities?

I'm not thrilled that the NSA, I mean Google is the company doing this rollout.  However, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, etc. aren't much better.  Same bad actors.

 

[KuJoe]

I would only switch if they have native IPv6, I've started relying more and more on IPv6 and I won't be dropping Comcast for an ISP that doesn't have it regardless of the speed.

 

[SkylarM]

I live 3 hours SE of Kansas City, and it's not rolling out to us. Sad

 

[willie]

Does anyone have a link to the 34 tentative cities?

I'm not thrilled that the NSA, I mean Google is the company doing this rollout.  However, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, etc. aren't much better.  Same bad actors.

From https://fiber.google.com/newcities/ : 

Arizona - Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe

California - San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto

Georgia - Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Hapeville, Sandy Springs, Smyrna

North Carolina - Charlotte, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Morrisville, Raleigh

Oregon - Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Lake Oswego, Tigard Tennessee - Nashville-Davidson

Texas - San Antonio

Utah - Salt Lake City