As a layman, newb, wannabe hacker etc. this does nothing but excite me.
I long ago conceded the privacy vs convenience point regarding google. I've been a long time customer. I felt (read: convinced myself) then as I do now that the engineering backbone would stifle less than acceptable behavior by the company.
I live in the largest city of a northeastern us state. My options for acceptable Internet are nil. +$120/month for (possibly) 70 Mbps. Which, from experience, is heavily weighted on concurrent usage.
Everything else aside, I want so bad the option to have [insert company (google is winning the race)] to come in an offer me something better.
If nothing else, as has been stated in other threads, this will be an enormous boon for technological state of ISP's in the so far backward US.
And it will remain that way for a long time. Google doesn't serve the whole metropolitan areas they are in and there is no known plan to expand beyond the two areas they are in. Google has stated they do not want to be an ISP so no plans to expand may not just be them being quiet.
So what does this mean for existing large ISP's? Nothing. The same nothing that every little regional ISP means to them.
I long ago conceded the privacy vs convenience point regarding google. I've been a long time customer. I felt (read: convinced myself) then as I do now that the engineering backbone would stifle less than acceptable behavior by the company.
I live in the largest city of a northeastern us state. My options for acceptable Internet are nil. +$120/month for (possibly) 70 Mbps. Which, from experience, is heavily weighted on concurrent usage.
Everything else aside, I want so bad the option to have [insert company (google is winning the race)] to come in an offer me something better.
If nothing else, as has been stated in other threads, this will be an enormous boon for technological state of ISP's in the so far backward US.