[122256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google to offer fiber to end users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Feb 10 15:56:08 2010
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:56:24 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B73176F.5050306@knownelement.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html
>
> What do folks think?
>
Optimistic view: It can force the incumbents into being competitive on
service and everyone wins.
Pessimistic view: incumbents feel threatened and try to sue/lobby it
away to keep the status quo like they did with cities trying to offer
wifi or FTTH.
~Seth
