FIBER, 5G, SATTELITE - WHICH WILL BE OUR FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION TO INFINITE AND BEYOND THE 1 GIGABIT - IT LOOKS LIKE FIBER ONCE LAID DOWN IN INFRASTRUCTURE WILL GET THERE FASTER SO THE SPEAK TO THE 10 GIGABIT INTERNET, AS DRIVEN FIRST BY GOOGLE AND NOW AT&T AS THE COMPETITION BY COMCAST, TO ELON MUSK SATTELITE, TO 5G WIRELESS COMES HEAD TO HEAD FIRST IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS

Google Fiber has succeeded in reigniting competition for faster internet across the US. However, now that Google Fiber has reached a similar conclusion as Verizon FiOS did a decade ago -- that digging expensive ditches and laying cables might be a 20th century way of solving the problem -- what's going to happen to the fiber broadband movement?
For example, AT&T had been on a gigabit tear in 2016, as it increased its fiber-to-the-premises roll-outs to a total of 29 different metro areas across the US, with plans for dozens more. That compared to nine metro areas for Google Fiber in 2016, with another dozen or so on the potential list. AT&T even thumbed its nose at Google in the process.
Meanwhile, cable providers like Time Warner Cable upgraded internet speeds by 6x for free to keep customers in the fold. Even smaller ISPs looked for ways to join the fiber revolution, such as CenturyLink, which reported in 2016 that it had found ways to get FTTP deployments down to $500-$800 from the tradition $1,000 or more it cost to lay fiber to each home or business.
Now that Google is retreating from FTTP rollouts in favor of fixed wireless (powered by its Webpass acquisition), it's unclear yet whether its fiber competitors will lose their enthusiasm for FTTP. Since Google chased out the Google Fiber CEO and laid off 9 percent of its staff last fall, AT&T has gone very quiet about its Fiber plans. Instead, it's been touting its 5G trials and its new "AirGig" technology to deliver gigabit internet over power lines.


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