Seattle To Get Gigabit Fiber To the Home and Business 108
symbolset writes "Enthusiasm about Google's Kansas City fiber project is overwhelming. But in the Emerald City, the government doesn't want to wait. They have been stringing fiber throughout the city for years, and today announced a deal with company Gigabit Squared and the University of Washington to serve fiber to 55,000 Seattle homes and businesses with speeds up to a gigabit. The city will lease out the unused fiber, but will not have ownership in the provider nor a relationship with the end customers. The service rollout is planned to complete in 2014. It is the first of 6 planned university area network projects currently planned by Gigabit Squared."
Exactly as it should be (Score:5, Insightful)
Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Private sector would be more efficient. (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:Private sector would be more efficient. (Score:4, Insightful)
Be prepared to pay double or triple what you should for this. This would be more efficiently handled by the private sector in a competitive environment. There is no reason tax dollars need to go to subsidize this when it has been proven time and time again that government involvement translates into higher prices, more screwups, and more debt for us all.
yeah, look how efficiently comcast, time warner, verizon et al are rolling out the gigabit fiber.
Re:Color me unimpressed (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Exactly as it should be (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Color me unimpressed (Score:5, Insightful)
Yep, we've been paying for these upgrades since Clinton but haven't seen a damn thing really.
The upgrades are always too expensive and they don't have the money, so WTF have them been doing with all those service fees for the past couple decade?
They need to be held accountable, give us the upgrades or give us the money.