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Location: Sodo Sopa at The Villas above Kenny' s House.
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Sporting my shirt today too. My daughter asked why it was free. I told her it was to promote the service in our area. She then asked " they are paying you too,right?". After trying to explain why not,she concluded that Google had gotten over on me and I was a sucker for wearing their "uniform" without gettibg a paycheck.
$25/month for 12 months (paid upfront 1 time) and no further payments for Internet service for 7 years.
The price sounds good, but actually using the 5 Mbps service won't be much fun. You even admit that you'd like something a little faster. Unfortunately, you would probably need to jump up to $40 - $50 per month range (non-promo) for a cable/DSL upgrade in the 20 - 50 Mbps range. I doubt you will find anything in between.
The real choice for most people will be paying ~$45/month for adequate 50 Mbps TWC service, or $70/month for 1,000 Mbps Google service. Many will stick with the cheaper monthly bill, but Google is offering a pretty good value proposition. They are also planning to upgrade all 1G customers to 10G (10,000 Mbps) in 2017, which will widen the gap further.
I'm currently 1 week into a $29.95 promo rate for 6 months for "standard" broadband cable service. After that I will bounce back over to the 'other' broadband cable provider for whatever best rate I can finagle for 6 - 12 months. I figure it will take Google a year before they're offering service to my subdivision, so there's time to think it through. In any event, competition is good and hopefully everyone else providing fast Internet service in this area will aggressively compete once Google becomes real.
Sporting my shirt today too. My daughter asked why it was free. I told her it was to promote the service in our area. She then asked " they are paying you too,right?". After trying to explain why not,she concluded that Google had gotten over on me and I was a sucker for wearing their "uniform" without gettibg a paycheck.
I wish there was a community-driven pin map to show the progress.
Anybody else wonder what is meant by "Raleigh-Durham area" - out how far? I've looked at the Kansas City build-out, trying to get the gist of, again, "area".
For example, there's a large area below Garner that continues all of the way down to the county line, that have addresses ending in "Raleigh, NC". Is Google willing to push out to areas like this and be happy with a lower ROI/foot, or are they just going to go after the "easy money", higher density, T-shirt wearing areas?
Well, first, they are going by actual city limits, not mail address. The post office has been pretty inconsistent in addressing over the years and many are in fringe areas are mis classified.
Second, they are not necessarily going to serve every single area in a given municipality. They base it partly on demand of people signing up.
There is a local map tracking it. Search for triangle fiber forum.
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