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derefr on April 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Netw...

> AT&T's expanded fiber plans in Austin anticipate it will be granted the same terms and conditions as Google on issues such as geographic scope of offerings, rights of way, permitting, state licenses and any investment incentives.

Sounds more like AT&T is expecting to make a deal with Google to resell bandwidth off Google's own fiber after Google puts up all the initial expense to lay it. That would indeed give them "exactly the same terms and conditions as Google."

knowaveragejoe on April 10, 2013 | [–]

Isn't Google laying minimal fiber infrastructure because they bought a bunch of existing dark fiber years back?

sliverstorm on April 10, 2013 | [–]

Hey, if they want to do that and Google will co-operate, sounds fine & dandy to me.

tomflack on April 10, 2013 | [–]

If Google slyly becomes America's fibre wholesaler like that, I will tip my hat to them.

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