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Google to trial 1Gbps fibre-to-the-home broadband

MadsL · 2010-02-10 23:49:14

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi Wouldn't it make economic sense to get Eamon Ryan to lobby/ask them to consider Ireland their test case...? 3 -4 million consumers, nice small location, european HQ already here...Irish project manager at Google...

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11-02-2010 12:49am

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http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Wouldn't it make economic sense to get Eamon Ryan to lobby/ask them to consider Ireland their test case...?

3 -4 million consumers, nice small location, european HQ already here...Irish project manager at Google...

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#2 11-02-2010 12:53am
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MadsL wrote: »

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Wouldn't it make economic sense to get Eamon Ryan to lobby/ask them to consider Ireland their test case...?

3 -4 million consumers, nice small location, european HQ already here...Irish project manager at Google...

Great idea, but if they ran it around london, 1 city in the UK they'd have 7.5million potential customers versus 3 million, economy of scale is one of Irelands big problems. Not to mention the planning laws. Ohh and the big orange elephant in the corner.

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#3 11-02-2010 12:53am
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*checks*

Okay its not April 1st yet, so this is probably way more real than Toilet Broadband....

Google is getting too big.

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#4 11-02-2010 1:19am
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drunkmonkey wrote: »

Great idea, but if they ran it around london, 1 city in the UK they'd have 7.5million potential customers versus 3 million, economy of scale is one of Irelands big problems. Not to mention the planning laws. Ohh and the big orange elephant in the corner.

Not even economies of scale, the larger problem is the low density of our urban areas never mind the scattering of our population in rural areas.

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#5 11-02-2010 1:24am
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The cost of infrastructure for ireland as others have mentioned on the point of population density would be too much as apposed to other countries/cities with a higher population density.
who said they'd offer to x thousand? Could just be a few. Even 60?

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Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second

Seems to be keeping it in americano

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#6 11-02-2010 3:15am
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Also the government don't need it they have the NBS, sure it will be grand ... somehow

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#7 11-02-2010 4:19am
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O_o the CIA could empty my hard drive in minutes with that.

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#8 11-02-2010 10:25am
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earlier thread here > http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055824638

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