05-16-2018, 04:27 AM
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Atlan...ays-141829
Quote:By now it's no secret that Google Fiber isn't quite as bullish on actually deploying...Google Fiber as it used to be. The company paused most of its deployments in late 2016 and laid of numerous employees, after burning through two CEOs in a matter of several months. The company's been pretty cagey ever since, happy to absorb the hype of the disruptive potential of Google Fiber, without really candidly acknowledging the fact that they overhyped their deployments, then left a large number of cities waiting at the altar for better broadband that never arrived.
Google higher ups became frustrated by the high cost and slow pace of the projects, despite numerous warnings from those intimately familiar with how hard it is to disrupt a market dominated by a handful of politically-powerful players.
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Deployments have also stalled in cities like Atlanta, where local news outlets state Google Fiber now won't even respond to requests for additional information:
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It's believed that as Google Fiber pivots to wireless it will simply shift gears and focus more heavily on emerging technologies like millimeter wave. But it's also entirely possible that if the company is already tired of the high costs and slow cadence of disrupting the broadband sector, it may ultimately just give up on the effort entirely.