[noncoml]

Forget about Net-Neutrality, it's gone, it's a dead horse. Let's see some competition.

I cannot believe that I live in the middle of the infamous Silicon Valley and only have a single choice when it comes to fast broadband, and that one goes down every other month for 3-8 hours.

[rconti]

I've got Comcast gigabit, in San Mateo county.

I took the time today to inquire (again) with Wave/Astound, Sonic, AT&T about FTTH.

AT&T gave me the worst rep humanly possible. I spent 20mins on the phone with her for her to still utterly misunderstand my question, as she was apparently unable to understand or speak english. I already knew Gigapower was not available, I just want SOMEONE to tell me when they plan to offer service at my house, less than a mile from the Redwood City / Spring St CO. No luck.

Sonic did the usual "maybe if you sign up for DSL and you talk all of your friends and neighbors into signing up, we'll vaguely consider bringing FTTH in 2050".

Wave actually had me enter my info and said someone would check my neighborhood (!?) and get back to me within a couple of days.

I'd love to pay, whatever, $1000 to get someone to bring some FTTH here and subsequently make it available to neighbors, improve their local service offerings, etc.

We'll see.

[scurvy]

I used to defend Sonic as a scrappy startup fighting the good fight for good people. But seriously, it's tiring and old. They needed to raise money to roll out fiber to more than 25 people in the sticks. They didn't and I think a large part of it I was Dane didn't want to give up control in return for capital. OK, that's his choice, but I'm no longer going to laud Sonic. It's basically a cute toy if you're lucky, not a real company.

[freetime2]

I think building out FTTH networks, and doing so profitably, is harder than you give it credit for. Look at all of the issues that Google and Verizon have run into - and they have all of the resources in the world at their disposal.

[scurvy]

VZ had nothing to gain from rolling it out, so they stopped. They put all their eggs in the net neutrality/complain that the network is congested basket.

Google might have some smart developers, but they know very little about rolling out a full ISP with fiber plant. Their webpass acquisition showed that. This is another case of Google's hubris tripping them up and landing smack on their face.

Real companies and organizations with good operations can roll out an all fiber ISP. It's not like it's never been done before. Your two counter examples were due to greed and incompetence.

[munk-a]

I am pretty soon that it'll be right back as soon as the FCC is turned blue again, additionally it is still important to discuss the fallout of this decision.