[squiguy7]

I'm surprised they didn't choose San Jose. There must be some things outside of their control considering they would have expanded into their own neighborhood.

[jbkly7]

There are quite a few factors outside their control, including existing infrastructure, local regulations, and local government willingness to accommodate Google: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/20...

[es09]

In the middle of last year, Google announced that they will also look at other bay area cities like Santa Clara for Fiber. I don't see what happened to that and there is no more mention of Santa Clara in the latest post. Maybe it fell through? The last update I see is from the city claiming that the discussions have ended - http://siliconvalleypower.com/index.aspx?recordid=3191&page=...

I wish I knew the reasons for not picking a city.

[ojbyrne]

Santa Clara was always included (and still is) in the potential San Jose rollout. As is Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto.

[danielweber]

A lot matters. For Charlotte, RST was installing a bunch of fiber and then they disappeared. GF is probably going to buy that up and use it.

[ddoolin]

They will probably hustle now. But their "fiber" wasn't true fiber like Google Fiber. RST's solution was fiber to a wireless node that would power multiple homes.