A2: Google Fiber

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Writing on MuniWireless, Esme Vos sounds a cautionary note about the Google initiative to build broadband networks in local communities. Ann Arbor is competing to be named as one of the communities in that effort. Writes Vos: “Many of us still think (unconsciously) of Google as this scrappy little startup who needs all the help it can get to go up against the Big Guys. But it isn’t. Google has become a large, highly profitable company; it has money and an army of lobbyists to fight the cable/DSL guys. In the end, here we are again, with a critical piece of infrastructure completely owned by one company – a private enterprise beholden only to its shareholders.” [Source]