Google Fiber Coming To Austin
Stacey Higginbotham for GigaOm:
And that’s one of the biggest repercussions of Google’s fiber roll outs. The more people who can pay $70 for gigabit service (or get 5 Mbps for free), the more pressure this puts on the existing providers to upgrade their networks and cut anticonsumer crap like data caps. But that’s exactly why more cities need these networks.
Google is very good at the do-something-to-pressure-others-to-do-it maneuver — which I appreciate.
