“Google” not as much of a selling point anymore? Or are they gonna sell it off?
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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Google has been using just "G" as a prefix for product names almost as long as it has existed. Remember Gmail?
Yo, it's G cause it's from the streets.
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.
Gsuite started as Google Apps for your domain
Itll be in the dust bin 2 years down the road so yeah no one trusts google products to be long term.
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
They just rolled out millions in new fiber lines in my area. I had them for internet since 2018, moved out of their area, and now I am in their area getting their service again.
You are incorrect about that stagnation. Google has breathed new life into fiber offerings.
Can I assume that you like their service?
Yes. The free cloud storage doesn’t hurt either
How much are they giving you?
Back when I had it, it was a free 2 TB of google cloud storage with the fiber account.
Dayum that's s deal
It’s increasingly never coming to my area
I live down the street from them and worked there a while.
Still getting fucked by comcast...
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.
Will the Google hotspot be called GSpot?
That would make my inner immature child soooooooooo happy
GFiber sounds like one of those fly by night companies on Amazon.
So I thought it was a fiber supplement branded by Warren G
It'll last almost as long
Why is this news?
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.
I'm just saying why should we care about a potential minor corporate rebranding?
1 because if you hear about gfiber coming to your area now you immediately know it's a Google product. Whether that's positive or negative in your opinion.
2 you may not have known that Google fiber isn't directly connected to the Google search company. There both largely independent subsidiaries of the alphabet parent company.
If you really don't care then just ignore it and move on. Or downvote and move on. You've interacted with this post quite a bit for someone who doesn't care about it.
G'Fiber M'Lady tips fedora
The "G" is silent.
So snoop Dogg is pronounced Snoop Do?
He do what what a snoop do
Just like iApple.
How much is it? Yesterday I saw an offer from a local provider offering 500Mb/s for 15 euro per month.
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 $60/mo. On copper, with no fiber options available.
gigabit fiber connection is just 6$/month in ukraine
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'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.
The last mile is a really expensive. Even a well intentioned company that wants to keep it's prices low has difficulty building that last mile out. There just aren't enough Americans who actually want government infrastructure like that. If enough people wanted them I firmly believe it would happen.
The last mile is not that expensive. Where I live you there's provider offering fast internet to rural, sparsely populated areas and it's not much more expensive than fibre I get in my apartment. I will be more expensive to connect a house like that definitely not thousands of dollars like they try to charge people in USA. In USA it would also be cheaper if the monopoly would not block smaller companies from rolling out the service. There's a lot of stories about neighbours joining together and building the last mile themselves at fraction of the cost Comcast wanted to charge them.
Monopolies don't exist every place. There are several companies in my area offering high speed Internet. One is in suburbs all around me but not in mine. They also have the cheapest costs. I called them asking when they might be expecting to my suburb and they said that my town (pop 60,000) will be one of the last because of how difficult it'll be to get to every house. A different company moved in pay year and they cost more than the first one. State governments shouldn't be allowed to block municipal Internet.
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?
Unfortunately that's not how it works. That works as an incentive to build not as a mechanism to bring down prices. For gigabit access in most markets that'll cost at least $50 more likely closer to $100 a month. I pay $60
It should work to bring down prices because the network would be paid for and so there's less of a need to make up for costs. Doesn't matter anyway, since the ISPs just pocketed the money and paid it out in bonuses rather than build what was promised.
Should yes but the federal government doesn't make conditions for the funds and if they do it's just ignore without consequences.
I mean, Google spies on you. Why would you let them be your isp too?
Do you think your current ISP isn't? Or your credit card company?