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Heard a little about this, but of what I have heard it is meant to be the fastest broadband in the world?:spy
Where is this available?
 
In certain cities in the US

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Though apparently, Google want to build a ton of satellites to provide internet access to those in remote areas around the world that don't have access at the moment, which would be pretty cool. I believe that many places in Africa have no internet access and to interact with things on the internet they often have to txt a certain number instead. Though I read that on reddit so make what you want of that.
 
Heard a little about this, but of what I have heard it is meant to be the fastest broadband in the world?:spy
Where is this available?

Its just available in only 1-2 cities in the US for now. Google is testing it out before rolling it to other places.

If Google succeeds in rolling Fiber out for most of the US, it would be massive. Right now, certain ISP's are enjoying a monopoly and are restricting customers with their limited bandwidth, high prices. Hope Google can destroy that and let consumers freedom.
 
google fiber is only in some cities of US. so that means this is not complettelly avaliable in US. that means it takes lots of years to come in india.
 
Its just available in only 1-2 cities in the US for now. Google is testing it out before rolling it to other places.

If Google succeeds in rolling Fiber out for most of the US, it would be massive. Right now, certain ISP's are enjoying a monopoly and are restricting customers with their limited bandwidth, high prices. Hope Google can destroy that and let consumers freedom.

I do not think that any ISP are enjoying monopoly. I do not know which part you US you live but where I am currently living there are many companies and the plans are pretty nice and I would definitely pay $50 bucks for a 30mbps unlimited plan.

I am shifting to New Jersey and I asked them and Comcast or Xfinity isnt yet there. They still have Time Warner. What I am saying is with different places isolated places here the prices are damn high I agree but if you live in place where everything is near by or not so isolate you will find decent plan. BTW Google Fiber costs $70 monthly with $300 installation charge for 1 GBPS speed which obviously everyone would pay. They also have $120 plan which gives tv connection and all channels too which again is pretty good but still I think people would prefer paying $50 or $40 and save $30 as not all need 1GBPS speed and to be honest 10-25mbps speed is enough
 
I do not think that any ISP are enjoying monopoly. I do not know which part you US you live but where I am currently living there are many companies and the plans are pretty nice and I would definitely pay $50 bucks for a 30mbps unlimited plan.

I am shifting to New Jersey and I asked them and Comcast or Xfinity isnt yet there. They still have Time Warner. What I am saying is with different places isolated places here the prices are damn high I agree but if you live in place where everything is near by or not so isolate you will find decent plan. BTW Google Fiber costs $70 monthly with $300 installation charge for 1 GBPS speed which obviously everyone would pay. They also have $120 plan which gives tv connection and all channels too which again is pretty good but still I think people would prefer paying $50 or $40 and save $30 as not all need 1GBPS speed and to be honest 10-25mbps speed is enough

Do you know that Comcast has bought Time Warner? Comcast is building their monopoly in the US internet market because their service level is good. But they are bringing insane restrictions to customers where they cap bandwidth and make people pay for business class internet in order to get off the cap. There might be a day when they cap even that, and make customers pay even more.

With the technology growing (you have 4k resolution videos these days) and with a number of streaming providers becoming popular (like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc), bandwidth caps will be busted very easily.
 
I can only dream about it being available in India..maybe 10 years down the line
 
Internet providers in America are terrible. A survey of internet users in America resulted in more than 50% saying they'd change providers if they were able to. In many places they only have access to one ISP and they just ramp up prices and restrict speeds.
 
I love Bangladesh. We're content paying ~$20 for 1mbps and would be incredibly happy to get 2mbps at the same price. :')

Well I pay for 4 mbps and sometimes the speed shoots up to 50 mbps :p

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Internet providers in America are terrible. A survey of internet users in America resulted in more than 50% saying they'd change providers if they were able to. In many places they only have access to one ISP and they just ramp up prices and restrict speeds.

Mumbai is excellent in that regard. You'll get around 3-4 or more ISPs in an area. Most of them are quite local and are available for only a small range though.
 
I love Bangladesh. We're content paying ~$20 for 1mbps and would be incredibly happy to get 2mbps at the same price. :')
I pay RS.700 for upto 4mbps unlimited.
 

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