My building now has ATT fiber and Century Link, our HOA negotiated for $30 (included in HOA fee) a month for 500/500 with $30 a month to upgrade to 1000/1000. Good times. ATT is now offering 2.5 and 5gbps plans as well.
Century Link fiber has been incredibly stable, the only outage we had was ironically when ATT was running the connection into the building they cut the Century Link connection...
I worry that Google really missed an opportunity to roll out an expansive network that consumers were eager to adopt. ATT has been adding in fiber everywhere in Central Florida. Every new development has ATT FttH. If Google rolled in now nobody would really care unless the price was dramatically cheaper.
I live in Canada and our condominium negotiated for CAD$40/month (included in our strata fees) with Bell (essentially a Canadian Verizon) 1.5GB fibre internet, the full traditional cable TV package, as well as Crave streaming (which is licensed in Canada for HBO and Paramount programming). Regular consumer pricing for all this would have been near $200 (though our building wasn't wired for fibre and the deal included them installing the infrastructure). I know they probably come out ahead because it includes a lot of units that would go with a competitor (Rogers, which is our version of Comcast), but it really puts things into perspective.
I have unsubsidized Century Link fiber for $65 a month for gigabit symmetrical and it is indeed very good. Considering Century Link was birthed from US West, the company that we fondly coined "US Worst" back in the day, I've been pleasantly surprised by (and thankful for!) their current competence.
Century Link fiber has been incredibly stable, the only outage we had was ironically when ATT was running the connection into the building they cut the Century Link connection...
I worry that Google really missed an opportunity to roll out an expansive network that consumers were eager to adopt. ATT has been adding in fiber everywhere in Central Florida. Every new development has ATT FttH. If Google rolled in now nobody would really care unless the price was dramatically cheaper.