I would like to see these hippie google bastards tooling around in east st louis, Alphabet would have to generate a body armor company
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > East St. Louis... > > -----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH > > This is the New Economy, we don't need no stinkin' profits. > > http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2015/10/15/square-ipo-filing-shows-fast-growth-consistent-losses/73985492/ > > And in the case of Google Fiber, how would we know if it was profitable? > Unless Alphabet intends to split off companies to stand on their own. > > I do find it interesting that everyone focuses on the last mile bandwidth, > as if that's the whole story. At least with business service, you don't > have the ridiculous scenario of someone running their 10 Gbps residential > Internet into an AC3200 router and doing speedtests on their iPad. But if > they sell 10 Gbps business service at lower than datacenter bandwidth > pricing, what happens if businesses start actually using it like DIA or > datacenter bandwidth? Like someone decides to sell cloud gaming or > streaming video or some business model that involves hundreds of screens > streaming 4K video? Maybe some real time medical imaging application. > > And all this gigabit activity in cities doesn't really prove much about > less > populated or economically distressed areas. If Google's intent is to prove > something, rather than cherry-pick, I'd still like to see them wire Detroit > or Newark. Not the wealthy suburbs or select "fiberhoods". Do the whole > city and show how it sparks an urban revival. Or go do a small rural town > or a tribal reservation. > > > -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH > > And, they are operating the system at a profit, right...? > > -----Original Message----- From: Travis Johnson > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 8:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH > > Does Google know they are getting out played by a small city? :) > > > http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/10gbps-internet-offered-by-city-fighting-anti-muni-broadband-laws/ > > Travis > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
