Re: Legal Costs?
They did, but they knew they would. The reason they said was that the installs cost a lot more than planned, which is why they started looking at using wireless to deliver the "last mile". Not sure if the expansion being over means "real" Google Fiber, or even the wireless hybrid they started talking about recently.
The idea that they could give away free internet at lower speeds was always ridiculous. There is only so much data you can collect on people, and if you already have them via their mail, browser, search, phone, etc. being able to get at the internet pipe for further data mining probably doesn't add that much value for them. I imagine the data collected via Google Fiber sounded a lot more valuable when this was in the planning stages, and both Chrome and Android had tiny market shares.