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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hooray, another buzz filled lab announcement with vague products that I'll never see access to and will all be cancelled within the next two years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google’s other businesses are certainly deserving of skepticism but what has Google Fiber cancelled?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iirc Google Fiber was supposed to roll out in a lot more places, but once they realized the cost they basically killed it outside of a few cities and suburbs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's fair. After looking around for a bit, there was some pressure on Google Fiber to cut back because the subscriber count wasn't growing as anticipated either.

As far as Google product potentially on life-support, I think they did better than a lot of others. Over the last few years they have been deploying 5/8Gbit service and continuing to expand their service area within some markets.