Let’s All Move to Austin
10th April 2013
First thought: “Ha!” Second thought: “Oh, wait — competition is an excellent thing.” While it’s highly probable that AT&T is looking to both overshadow Google’s launch party and maintain a foothold in one of its most prized states, the outfit’s terse announcement of an impending 1Gbps fiber network should honestly be seen as nothing but excellent news for residents of Austin. Merely hours after Google and the city of Austin jointly made clear that Google Fiber would be hitting up local homes in mid-2014, Ma Bell has made public its “intent” to built a 1 Gigabit fiber network in the same area.
Wouldn’t mind living there, except that it’s a catchment area for all the socialists in Texas. Politicians and college kids are as bad a combination as whisky and car keys.
April 10th, 2013 at 11:28
Well, that and half of Texas send the GPS coordinates for Austin to the North Korean Missile Command. (Turns out they don’t have a missile with enough range to reach D.C., dammit.)