Google reveals where AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable will next offer Gbps broadband Google has named the next four areas in the US to get its gigabit-a-second fiber broadband. The advertising giant said on Tuesday it will next roll out high-speed connections to 18 cities in and around Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Raleigh-Durham, NC; and Nashville, TN. Charlotte city officials had indicated they were expecting …
While I'm in no position to speak for the company in any way, you might also consider that, as a company based in the US, there might be more of an element of "Fixing up the homestead first" going on than your proposed "These guys are inherently worth more" angle. That is my first thought, at least.
there might be more of an element of "Fixing up the homestead first" "PR with the constituents of legislators in the country where we're headquartered first"
FTFY.
Google aren't doing this out of love for developed-world video-streaming addicts.1 They're doing it as an investment, and they want to maximize their return.
HTH. HAND.
1I'm trying to think of another plausible, productive use for a 1 GB/s Internet connection to the home. None comes to mind. I know I would see negligible benefit from such a connection. But then I've only been using the Internet since the mid-1980s, and only had it direct to the home for seventeen years, so what do I know?
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