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Because rolling out a fibre network is very very very expensive. People who think they are entitled to certain speeds, data caps, or prices, don't understand this. That's why Google Fiber is reconsidering their investment. It simply is too expensive.

If you have a problem, you can ask your government to force Comcast to rent the network, as it happens in civilised countries like mine, but that makes it harder to compete in price.




> Because rolling out a fibre network is very very very expensive.

For some values of very very very expensive.

Fiber to the home costs about as much as a MacBook Pro.




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