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I'm hopeful that the San Jose deployment has a halo effect throughout the Bay Area.  Your move Comcast.

I'm hopeful that the San Jose deployment has a halo effect throughout the Bay Area.  Your move Comcast.

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Today we’ve invited 34 cities in nine metro areas around the U.S. to work with us to explore what it would take to bring them Google Fiber. In the coming months, we'll work with each city's leaders on a joint planning process to map out a Google Fiber network in detail and assess potential challenges to bringing 100x faster Internet to these communities. We aim to provide updates about which of these cities will be getting Google Fiber at the end of the year. Learn more: http://goo.gl/tMg6F9

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C'mon San Jose!

M PottyMouth, Feb 19 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com

Comcast just lobbies to outlaw partnerships like this.

Peter Peters, Feb 19 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com

Peter Peters that's true, but hopefully with what happened with the bill in Kansas will gain traction to other states to limit that behavior. Admittedly, unless new laws are passed invalidating the ones that were already passed, some (at least 20) states are SOL.

M PottyMouth, Feb 19 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com

Actually, Paul Lindner, if you look at the smaller dots around San Jose, there are a few coming up the Oakland side of the Bay, though I'm not sure if they go as far north as Oakland.

Jeff “foxxtrot” Craig, Feb 19 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com

Jeff Craig -- looks like that's just a little bit of Santa Clara heading my way..  

Since Comcast operates a unified environment in the bay area it's likely many more people will benefit indirectly.

Paul Lindner, Feb 19 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com

I sure hope fiber comes to Oakland. I've been to Verizon's web site requesting it.

Paul Lam (homeboy), Feb 20 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com

Paul Lam I wouldn't hold your breath given the Oakland Planning Department's glacial speed and ancient computing infrastructure.

If you read the guide they mention that the host city should be able to approve thousands of Building Permits to allow crews to move fast...

And of course there's CEQA..  One person could file a lawsuit on environmental grounds and grind the whole thing to a halt for years...  I'll be extremely surprised if San Jose makes the cut.

Paul Lindner, Feb 20 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com