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- google@lemdro.id
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
I’m pretty sure it’s not because the country is big. It’s because couple of companies have effective monopoly and there’s no competition. A lot of municipal fibre projects got killed by lobbying and lawsuits and even big companies like Google struggle to enter the market because existing laws protect the monopoly. The government could provide the central infrastructure like it does in Europe but it’s corrupt and not really interested in building infrastructure any more.
The last mile is a really expensive. Even a well intentioned company that wants to keep it’s prices low has difficulty building that last mile out. There just aren’t enough Americans who actually want government infrastructure like that. If enough people wanted them I firmly believe it would happen.
The last mile is not that expensive. Where I live you there’s provider offering fast internet to rural, sparsely populated areas and it’s not much more expensive than fibre I get in my apartment. I will be more expensive to connect a house like that definitely not thousands of dollars like they try to charge people in USA. In USA it would also be cheaper if the monopoly would not block smaller companies from rolling out the service. There’s a lot of stories about neighbours joining together and building the last mile themselves at fraction of the cost Comcast wanted to charge them.