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by Retric 3366 days ago
They have around 1/2 million subscribers which is a rather large ISP to call it dead. While it is not growing fast that's not Googles goal.

Google fiber is still a useful stick as Google can just say paying you X billion for Y years before running you out of business is option A, option B is not paying you anything you chose. It's a large part of why YouTube has avoided many of Netflix's issues with ISP's.