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TECHNOLOGY Google to Announce Fiber Expansion In Four Cities
wall street journal ^ | 1-27-2014 | ALISTAIR BARR

Posted on 01/27/2015 12:35:30 PM PST by edzo4

Google Inc. is preparing to offer its high-speed fiber-optic Internet service in four new metro areas, the latest step in a careful expansion of the service.

Google will announce launches of Google Fiber in Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C. and Nashville, Tenn. in coming days, according to two people familiar with the situation.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: atlanta; charlotte; georgia; googlefiber; internet; nashville; northcarolina; raleighdurham; tennessee
Can't wait.
1 posted on 01/27/2015 12:35:30 PM PST by edzo4
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To: edzo4
We hinterlanders had better keep our internet thingy happening ... the urbans are going to be WAYY ahead of us in speed and acquisition of data

Give to FR

2 posted on 01/27/2015 12:39:20 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: edzo4

Maybe they will string the fiber between Atlanta and Charlotte up I-85 right by my house. If so, Shirley they’ll let me connect too!


3 posted on 01/27/2015 12:40:22 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: edzo4

Expanding their spy network.


4 posted on 01/27/2015 12:42:03 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resettozero

Greenville SC should get it as well. We are right in the middle.


5 posted on 01/27/2015 12:44:18 PM PST by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: edzo4

Dagnabit.

I’m just up the street from the rollout. Laz might be in range though.


6 posted on 01/27/2015 12:44:50 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Expanding their spy network

Yup. One big pipe sucking all the info you send out or have on your own machines into their server farms.

7 posted on 01/27/2015 12:53:20 PM PST by Regulator
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To: edzo4

Wish they come to Las Vegas NV, because Cox is darn near a monopoly. I suppose Google isn’t up to paying the politicians here large untraceable bribes.


8 posted on 01/27/2015 1:01:55 PM PST by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: edzo4

I’m in Atlanta! Hopefully it get’s out to the metro areas where 90% of the population lives...


9 posted on 01/27/2015 1:03:49 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: edzo4

Does anyone understand the mechanics of the Google expansion? Are the digging up the streets, hanging their cable on telephone poles or piggy-backing on existing cable somehow?


10 posted on 01/27/2015 1:09:45 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: edzo4

An announcement to announce that they are going to make an announcement.


11 posted on 01/27/2015 1:27:02 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: edzo4

o that Fiber =)


12 posted on 01/27/2015 1:29:28 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Resettozero

‘__________and don’t call me Shirley - - - - - ‘

Sounds like your approx area is where my NY sister moved to almost 2 years ago.


13 posted on 01/27/2015 2:10:34 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: InterceptPoint

It is all new infrastructure. The reason they roll it out in selective cities is because it is all done on Google’s dime. They will not suffer unions or political considerations for the most part. Fiber is a separate entity.


14 posted on 01/27/2015 2:10:39 PM PST by chriscraft
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To: USARightSide
Sounds like your approx area is where my NY sister moved to almost 2 years ago.

Remind your sis when you talk next time that she needs to speak slower now, not louder.
15 posted on 01/27/2015 4:46:59 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

L O L!
However, we rarely talk & occasionally email.
Everyone is SOOOoooo busy -


16 posted on 01/27/2015 5:05:41 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Resolute Conservative

BINGO!!! You nailed it!! Providing the digital highway on which they can tap into all traffic.


17 posted on 01/27/2015 8:09:25 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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