http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2014\/05\/01\/4878915\/google-praises-charlottes-google.html<\/p>\n
Google has gotten approval from the City Council, including permission to place Google equipment on city owned land. It’s not an exclusive deal – Google is requiring that any facilities the City makes available also be offered to competitors.<\/p>\n
Time\/Warner (soon to become Comcast) owns the existing cable franchise. For reasons that aren’t clear, AT&T has been very slow to build our uVerse (which I had in Connecticut)<\/p>\n
Google’s Internet offering is a one time $300 fee to get current speed broadband Internet (no monthly fee), $70 a month for Gigabit (which would be 40x my current speed at about the price I pay Time Warner) or $120 a month to add in “TV”<\/p>\n
I can tell you for a fact if Google moved its headquarters to Charlotte, the natives would not be throwing rocks at their employees on the way to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2014\/05\/01\/4878915\/google-praises-charlottes-google.html Google has gotten approval from the City Council, including permission to place Google equipment on city owned land. It’s not an exclusive deal – Google is requiring that any facilities the City makes available also be offered to competitors. … Continue reading