The dash for fiber

Desperate cities beseech St. Google: bless us with thy fiber

Google announced that they were going to take some of their dark fiber and bring a community 1Gbps fiber connection. And this is the response. Multiple cities across the US are sending their proposals in to get Google to lay the fiber infrastructure for their city.

I have to say, the response is amazing but not surprising. Too many comments I have read where either they are: overpaying for a slow broadband, have no options, or have the choices of worse and more worse. And that's just a few. You have rural residents like me with one or two options of "broadband" and slowest, and you have city residents that are stuck on dial-up due to zoning. And then there are cities that try to lay fiber for their residents, and find themselves sued by the incumbent ISP. Some very rarely win. And then some states ban communities from even trying to build their own networks. (Btw, thanks a lot, Texas.)

But I will say that Google has definitely started something here and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.