<story><title>Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilovecaching</author><text>Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&amp;amp;T, companies made of pure greed. Small end sub ISPs have to claw for every strand of dark fiber. Google really shouldn’t be the answer though. We need to demand that politicians address the issue in the upcoming election before they start looking at the Silicon Valley giants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>The best ISP in the country is in Minneapolis.  $70&amp;#x2F;mo for symmetric 1 Gbps&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiber.usinternet.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiber.usinternet.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They lay their own fiber terminating at your home and have been steadily covering the metro area.</text></comment>
<story><title>Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilovecaching</author><text>Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&amp;amp;T, companies made of pure greed. Small end sub ISPs have to claw for every strand of dark fiber. Google really shouldn’t be the answer though. We need to demand that politicians address the issue in the upcoming election before they start looking at the Silicon Valley giants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vonmoltke</author><text>&amp;gt; Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&amp;amp;T&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t change much, but you left out Verizon and Spectrum.</text></comment>