Mobile Strategy - An Enterprise Revolution

Google Fiber clocked in a real home.  Look at that latency!  Oh, and the up/down stream ain’t shabby.  Since I am NOT lucky enough to live in a Google Fiber area, all I can say is I hope the folks that do “prove” the business model so that Google eventually rolls it out in other places.  

Here in Ann Arbor, we tried pretty hard to bring it here, and I think we would have been a pretty good test market, but I’m sure there were a lot of factors we don’t know about.  

I can’t complain too much though, I’m lovin my 10-20Mb/s downstream I’m getting from my Verizon LTE 4G through my Droid Charge hotspot.  It has completely revolutionized my mobile habits. You have to try it.  Even Sprints 4-6Mb/s Wimax 4G speeds pale in comparison.  Just hope it doesn’t slow down too much as more people jump on the network.

mikehudack:

mattlehrer:

Google Fiber shows its potential with 151Mbps download speeds

This is from the home of someone lucky enough to live in the area where Google is testing out their own fiber to the home product.

The obvious question now is, if Google can do this, why aren’t network operators banging down the company’s door to get involved and roll this out everywhere. Yes, there’s big investment involved, but these companies are kidding themselves if they think waiting and dealing with a lack of bandwidth in the future is going to work for them. Whoever jumps first and starts investing in these fiber-to-the-home initiatives is going to be rewarded with a lot of new customers in years to come.

Not if wireless is able to provide these or similar speeds in the next ten to twenty years.