They aren't withdrawing from anywhere they currently are. Laying the wiring

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Oct 27, 2016
9:35:45am

molodyets All-American

was too expensive to scale, so they are pausing expansion while they develop the technology to go completely wireless.

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molodyets

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Google Fiber shutting down - how long will they stay in Utah?

Thunder Buddy

10/27/16 9:30am

Don't see anything in there about them withdrawing from anywhere.

SandYFan

10/27/16 9:32am

They aren't withdrawing from anywhere they currently are. Laying the wiring

molodyets

10/27/16 9:35am

Once the infrastructure is in place, it would be foolish to abandon it

inertiaman

10/27/16 9:36am

Selling seems most likely at this point if you look 2-5 years into the future.

cougarstolz

10/27/16 9:36am

Or maybe it's foolish to keep dumping money into something that is obsolete.

Conan

10/27/16 9:51am

I won't be surprised if Google is out of Utah in the next year.

Thunder Buddy

10/27/16 9:58am

They aren't shutting down, just aren't doing any more expanding temporarily

CougarVeteran

10/27/16 9:37am

Which is pretty ironic for me since I'm reading this in the restroom

byuTX

10/27/16 9:41am

Cool

Cougar-Duck

10/27/16 9:42am

That would be awesome

Zilog

10/27/16 9:55am

Link

HuskerFan2

10/27/16 10:05am

Its not shutting down. They're just freezing all expansion.

HuskerFan2

10/27/16 9:38am

They already had announced they weren't expanding to Portland after all

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