[justinlardinois]

I don't agree with this at all. Google's projects don't always make money, but I don't think it ever does something without an intention to make money. The idea that Google Fiber existed solely to further a political cause seems far-fetched to me.

Also, net neutrality being in the Democratic Party platform is a far cry from it actually being law. The election isn't over yet and so we don't know who the next president will be and which parties will control which houses of Congress.

[jordan_litko]

It was to further a political cause that allows them to continue to make money. In the end, it was still about the money.

[euyyn]

It also made other ISPs start deploying ~gigabit/s service, which was another stated goal, no?

And for internet companies, users' access to the internet is a complementary product: the more and faster, the better.

[aub3bhat]

Google has done this before e.g. they adopted a brilliant strategy, and drove up the auction prices in a spectrum option forcing FCC to adopt open rules. By threatening to build out a Fiber optic network, it forced the competition to respond.

https://www.cnet.com/news/spectrum-auction-google-wins-by-lo...