Google Fiber has updated their webpage showing that they will be deploying to the RDU area! Why is this good news you ask? Well for a couple of reasons.
- Speed – Google fiber is extremely fast internet, you can get 1GB download and a 1GB upload.
- Affordable – Google fiber is affordable, they offer a 1GB connection for $70 a month. Right now TWC offers 50Mb for $65, so you’re getting twenty times the speed for five more dollars! They also offered free internet of 5mb for seven years if you paid the $300 setup fee.
- They support net neutrality. Net neutrality is the idea that an internet provided won’t lower your connection if you use too much bandwidth or if you go to a specific webpage. While many companies say they support net neutrality they are accused of throttling internet connections. They also use throttling of a customers speed to make netflix, hulu and other providers to pay them so that their service is unimpeded. While you don’t directly pay that cost, it means netflix and other others must pay and therefore they bill you more for their services.
- Competition – It forces other companies to install more affordable and powerful internet connections. Already AT&T have announced they plan to lay fiber lines in the RDU area as well. This drives prices down, Yay!, and it gives us access to a better connections.
With any luck we will see similar pricing from google fiber. We won’t know more until they talk to the cities on the 28th + 29th of January but it is good news for us North Carolinian’s! I will post my thoughts on what they talk about in the coming days, tune in then!
