Detours: Google Fiber and Kansas City’s grassroots broadband revolution
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In 2012, Google came to Kansas City promising a new era of connectivity with its ultra-high-speed broadband internet. About one year later, The Verge looks at whether Google Fiber has lived up to its promise, and how another new network is helping provide connectivity to local, low-income communities. More from The Verge:
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Dude forget those ungrateful ducks in Kansas. Let them wait on expensive slow providers, if that is what they want. Give Google fiber to the people who want it more/most!
I liked this video because it brings up some interesting points — you can offer people exactly what they need/want (not that in this case has google hit on the exactly mark) but if you can’t deliver it in a culturally relevant way then your doomed to fail. You can just look at NFP’s in Africa to see this story play out time and time again.
All they’re doing is decentralising the internet from corporate daddies and big brother so that the common man can access it without burning a hole in his pocket and being spied upon.
I don’t think “butt hurt hippies” is the right term here.
There’s no point in providing insane speeds when they had never ever in their lives had an basic internet connection. And there’s two reason behind it :
— one they don’t need it
— and second they they do need it but couldn’t afford
So in my view, Google should rather invest in increasing the awareness for it.
Or else make it super cheap, this way they might consider it rightaway & eventually upgrade it in future.
Because, its that first Interaction to Web that maters.
As in here in India, the nos. are completely opposite to US : Roughly 2% of the whole has access to it…!!!!
Because half of them had literally never heard of it or if they do then they don’t know What it is. And the other half doesn’t know What to do with it.
It not about the reach or connectivity, its that realisation of its need that had been the major disappointment.
And taking about speeds its 100$+ per month for an decent 4 Mbps. 🙁
Fuck if its not for you, fuck you go do your things don’t blame Google
Just because Google is big and is doing something it does not mean they have to include you, whenever you are, its 2013 and you don’t have internet and now you care and Google need to give to you?
What
This was really interesting; this man came across as a coof compared to the mainstream Google. Hope this grammatical assistance helped.
They are so worried about faster internet rather than just getting them online because if they just get them online, as technology progresses they’re gonna want faster internet and it’s a much better long term decision to just do faster now rather than the bare minimum now and making better later. Especially when looking and the cost .effectiveness
Ugh Kansas City sounded like a waste. Google fiber would be better in metropolis cities like Orlando, New York, LA, and Seattle.
“The Verge look at the whether Google Fiber has lived up to its promise…”. Not only is there a grammatical error, but there is a semantic error as well. You just shared a one sided, rather biased analysis of how google has done.
Edit: Grammar and Spelling and Semantics
Google is a business not a charity. Fiber is a revolution in internet connectivity, but it has to be profitable. Does this kid think he was the first person to talk about high altitude balloons providing internet access? Google was the one to actually do it. Sounds to me like Google is taking their customers, just not the ones in the ghettos where many people don’t have computers or shop online.
but they rely on corporate donations too. It’s unsustainable, you still need to pay for maintenance and upgrade of the equipment.
This was a great piece. Verge are one of only a handful of publishers who are consistently and regularly creating high-quality and compelling video content alongside their primary output of web editorial content. Bravo.
Interesting piece. Thank you for presenting some of these points, that are worth discussing.
I usually love these features but I really didnt get the point of this one…
The broader problem with Google Fiber is that it operates just the same as any other ISP, and it has to in order to be sustainable. There’s a difference between connecting an area and the 17% that didn’t have access. Even though Google Fiber’s offering a “free” tier, they can’t afford to maintain it if this is their business.
As they said, once they “got the message, they got the message: this isn’t for you.” It’s not that Google’s neglecting people; Fiber just isn’t the right service for them.
That guy will probably hate balloons forever now.
the guy with the dirty beard and the half buttoned shirt telling me about equity.…yeeeah ok.
F**K this guy
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This show is depressing as hell.
The tone is this episode in confusing. Google Fiber is a good thing. Why would somebody complain that a large corporation is taking an interest in improving our connectivity? This is not a task that can be undertaken by one person.
i dont understand. so did google stole his idea of balloons?
Gracias senor, perro ingles es too mainstream.
Yes pretty much, kind of hard to believ that two seperate teams had the same idea at around the same time :P. So i must assume googlers got ‘inspired’ somehowe
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this was a pretty bad Detours, what was it about, is Google is wrong about Fiber? the way they are doing it, or this guys say all this non-sense because he think he was the first one thinking about bringing connections via ballons ?? Manologft is right, this guy is a drama queen.
Hard to believe that every idea is unique. It is just a matter of who races to the patent office first.
I take it as the people didn’t like the idea of “Google hanging a carrot” in their faces.
Well, it is kinda weird seeing how they see the importance of internet, but didn’t want to work for their city to get it.
true, not every idea is unique. I leave the patent office alone man, takes to much time. But these corporations need those patents. Copy copy copy, thats also away to create shit.
Trying to turn a good thing into a bad thing. I’m really turned off by this episode.
Sorry, im confused. Isnt Google offering low cost (or free) fibre internet to an underserved city?
first word problems.
Was there supposed to be some kind of overall takeaway? I’m left confused about what exactly I just watched.
I’m not sure why people are confused by this video. Seems like a pretty good side by side comparison of a company working within a capitalist system vs. a collective working using anarchistic principles and mutual aid. As you can see one side looks to help all parties, while the other is only interested in finding those it can profit it off of.
To those speaking to fiber being free, it can be after a $300 investment.
you do realize they also offer 5mb/s internet for free
I WANT FIBER!!!!!!!!!
Its actually a one time payeemnt of $300 or just pay $300 furing the course of the year. and then its free afterwards. But still, thats a great fucking deal
Finally a good example of tech journalism.
By expensive, you mean free?
How is fiber being available free — yes, after installation costs — evidence of Google ‘only being interested in finding those it can profit off of’?
I just realized something. Unless one wants to download whatever at the speed of lightning or running a data farm or something there’s no need to have speed that fast. And a lot of ppl can’t afford $70 just for web. Jumps from $0 to $70? Google’s living in its own cloud.
Really stupid question: where can you get the music and/or what is it called?