Comments on: Richmond competing for Google’s ultra high speed broadband

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:49:06 +0000

I am guessing that this will be through the air waves which google put so much effort into when all the regular non-digital tv ranges went up for sale. This would be called something like GiFi i believe or maybe google will make a spin and call it GoogleFi.

By: Irony

Irony — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:39 +0000

@Bill
We do have Fios as does many other localities. Fiber networks have been around for years and Richmond has several fiber trunks that surround the city. What Google is doing is installing a network capable of Gigabit speeds, something that no one has yet. It’s an interesting project and looking at the number of cities that want it looks like it’s going to stir up quite a bit of competition.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:03:09 +0000

What about FiOS? Richmond will not get it…they have FiOS that covers a large amount of the city. The only areas in the City that do not offer FiOS is downtown and Church Hill.