> The article credits Google with these deployments, but makes no effort to show that the pace of these projects, which were already in the pipeline, somehow accelerated after Fiber.
Do you live in an area that was targeted for a Google Fiber rollout? I do. Weeks after Google announced our area was getting fiber — BAM! AT&T and TWC dropped prices and raised speeds dramatically . Not long after that AT&T had run FTTH to a significant number of households. Previously that had been unheard of in this area. Google most certainly lit a fire under their asses.
Do you live in an area that was targeted for a Google Fiber rollout? I do. Weeks after Google announced our area was getting fiber — BAM! AT&T and TWC dropped prices and raised speeds dramatically . Not long after that AT&T had run FTTH to a significant number of households. Previously that had been unheard of in this area. Google most certainly lit a fire under their asses.