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Please send ripples through to market Google.

All the news about where Google is rolling out GFiber seems to indicate they're getting their feet wet with smaller communities first, which makes logical sense in many ways.

On one hand the logistics of managing smaller municipal networks is easier, the politics is a lot less murky, and they establish a history of cooperation and reliability.

Where they start to ramp up in cities with >1M people is a mystery though, only time will tell. It may be Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, St Louis, Minneapolis, or even Dallas.

The first two places ( I know it isn't much data points) were Silicon Prairie-ish places. Provo I was a bit surprised by, but I think the main draw there was the in-place fiber that just needs bought for the $1 and then upgraded.

All of the major companies have a decent presence in Utah. Adobe just opened up a 1,000 shop in Lehi (15 minutes north of Provo). Utah is one of the larger growing secondary tech hubs in the nation. No where close to Silicon Valley or NYC, but still growing and doing quite well.

http://www.siliconslopes.com/sites/default/files/silicon_slo...

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