Google Fiber completely shit the bed in Louisville (KY). The initial announcements did seem to spur more build-out and price cuts among the two incumbents, but even with One Touch Make Ready, Google eschewed the utility poles they were supposed to use, attempted "micro-trenching" which made zero sense in the city's climate and screwed everything up so badly (including creating a massive mess of potholes for the city to clean up) that they just shut the network back down and skipped town.
Unsurprisingly the incumbents are back to their usual complacency and their prices have steadily been on the rise in the couple years since Google Fiber did such a terrible job. It's one thing to shut down Messenger App 2 of 6, it's another thing to just entirely cut and run from an infrastructure project leaving bills behind to the City's taxpayers to pay.
Unsurprisingly the incumbents are back to their usual complacency and their prices have steadily been on the rise in the couple years since Google Fiber did such a terrible job. It's one thing to shut down Messenger App 2 of 6, it's another thing to just entirely cut and run from an infrastructure project leaving bills behind to the City's taxpayers to pay.