mizzou_guy said:
I see what you're saying, but Google Fiber is only currenlty available in 4 cities with only 7 more cities for sure being expanded into: https://fiber.google.com/about/ AT&T has many more cities, but if you look at this map, there is A LOT of the country left out, even in the same states where several cities are being developed for fiber: Comcast also has several cities currently in their fiber market, but again, A LOT of land in between is not covered: http://business.comcast.com/about-us/our-network You have to remember that America is composed of a lot more land than just cities, and there are millions of people whom are not going to be receiving these fiber networks in the near future. As I said before, I'd guess that it'll be at least a decade before people outside of these major cities can affordably obtain fiber speeds with their home networks. Console companies are not going to just mark-off non-city residents from their consumer bases and focus on a console that is streaming only, as they would be losing way too much profit by limiting potential customers with that business model. |
This is today though, you have to understand, 2-3 years ago there were like 2-3 cities total ... AT&T is adding 38 cities this year alone. In 5 years pretty much all the country's urban centers will have ultra high speed and probably a lot of rural areas too.
Even Comcast ... they've found a way to deliver 1 Gigabit internet through *existing* cable infastructure, no fiber network needed.
So what's happening now is AT&T, Google, and Comcast are all in competetion with each other, which will cause everything to spread even faster.
Google Fiber was the spark that set off the dynamite.
