Google Fiber in Franklin

[Hey_Hey]

Originally Posted by key2success

It will be all of nashville and most of surrounding areas. Its just a matter of time. They will do the best and dense part of nashville first

Even parts of smyrna is getting fiber

From Google? Google hasn't announced any of their fiber-hoods so, technically, no one has access to Google for sure at this point. They have said "Nashville" and Metro Council worked with them to put legislation in place to adopt it, and they later stated that Forest Hills and Oak Hill were included.

Several of the surrounding areas are getting AT&T and/or Comcast fiber though.

[theLedger]

Density is not the only consideration. They also look at income strata because it doesn't pay to put expensive fiber in areas where the expected subscriber rate is low unless there are government incentives to do so.

The median salary and average salary in Williamson County is more than twice Davidson County plus a lot of the developments are newer and were built with networking in mind compared to much of Nashville being built in the pre-Internet age.

[registeredmember]

I would think and hope that Google would be hesitant to provide the service to a subscriber base that opposes and has elected a number of representatives who vehemently oppose net neutrality.

[BirdieBelle]

Originally Posted by registeredmember

I would think and hope that Google would be hesitant to provide the service to a subscriber base that opposes and has elected a number of representatives who vehemently oppose net neutrality.

... Even though it's the highest-earning area in the mid-state and home of Google's 2014 e-city for the state of TN.



Brentwood receives Google's 'eCity Award' - Brentwood Home Page

What a conundrum!!

[Hey_Hey]

I don't know how much income really matters, to be honest. Essentially all homes in middle class neighborhoods are connected to the internet. Having a median income of $100,000 instead of $75,000 probably won't make that much of a difference because almost every household above $50,000 will have broadband (excluding elderly). Google will make the same amount of money off of a household making $50,000 subscribing to the internet as they will off a household making $150,000, but they have a much higher installation cost per customer in less dense neighborhoods.

For example, the Governor's club will eventually have 430 homes built over 615 acres. 100% of the homes will have internet. Now compare that to a neighborhood along Nolensville Pk that will have five times that density. In order to get the same amount of revenue per mile of installation they only have to get 20% of the people to sign up for their ROI to be the same. That 20% figure will be easy to hit, so for Google it seems like the Nolensivlle Pk neighborhood is the better investment.

[BirdieBelle]

Better investment? To me that would be the corporate HQs building in Cool Springs vs. "along Nolensville Pk."

[Hey_Hey]

Originally Posted by Wmsn4Life

Better investment? To me that would be the corporate HQs building in Cool Springs vs. "along Nolensville Pk."

And investment in the Gulch or Sobro is better than corporate HQs in Cool Springs.

However, Google isn't even after the business traffic. Their focus has been residential. They won't even offer Google Fiber for small business until a later date, as was also the case for Austin and Kansas City.

The reality is that Google has announced the cities it will be entering: Nashville, Berry Hill, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, and Belle Meade. Franklin and Brentwood may or may not be on the list in the future. If they were to announce expansion there immediately, it would still be at least 2 years before the expansion happened.

[brentwoodgirl]

Originally Posted by Hey_Hey

And investment in the Gulch or Sobro is better than corporate HQs in Cool Springs.

However, Google isn't even after the business traffic. Their focus has been residential. They won't even offer Google Fiber for small business until a later date, as was also the case for Austin and Kansas City.

The reality is that Google has announced the cities it will be entering: Nashville, Berry Hill, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, and Belle Meade. Franklin and Brentwood may or may not be on the list in the future. If they were to announce expansion there immediately, it would still be at least 2 years before the expansion happened.

If they are coming to Oak Hill and Forrest Hills, then Google clearly doesn't care about density, which was your earlier position. Oak Hill and Forrest Hills have a density similar to Brentwood and they are less dense than Franklin.

[Hey_Hey]

I think common sense also tells us that proximity matters as do political boundaries. Forest Hills, Oak Hill, and Belle Meade are in Nashville. They have proximity to the core structures of the fiber network. Service areas branch out from the center of the network (downtown) into Fiber Huts that serve large swaths of the city and then into "fiber hoods." There are fiber huts built/approved for Castleman Dr and Belmont Blvd in Green Hills, either of which will provide service to Green Hills and parts of the satellite cities because of how close they are.

[BirdieBelle]

An article that does a good job of explaining why the Google Fiber process is taking longer than expected.

What's Behind the Slow Rollout of Google Fiber? | Nashville Scene

It also explains why it takes so long to "clear the scene" when a car takes out a telephone pole in a wreck.