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Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber
New submitter Admiral Jimbob McGif writes Even as a massive firestorm burns uncontrollably threatening to scorch
the very foundations of the internet with AT&T indefinitely halting
future GigaPower FTTH
rollouts
due to uncertainty
over the future of net neutrality and the Obama
administration proposing to regulate
the internet under Title 2, highly suggestive jobs were recently
added
to Google Careers.
These Google Fiber related positions include: "City Manager", "Community Impact Manager" and "Plant Manager" in all potential Google Fiber cities. Perplexing inconsistences abound, such as Portland, Phoenix, San Jose and Atlanta positions being listed as local. Whereas San Antonio, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Nashville are listed as telecommute positions.
One is inclined to speculate as to what these job postings mean despite Google's disclaimer: "Not all cities where we're exploring hiring a team will necessarily become Google Fiber cities." Would Google post jobs as an act of posturing much like AT&T's supposed "Gigabit smoke screen" bluff? Or, should we expect to see these so called Fiber Huts springing up like so many mushrooms after a heavy rain in an additional 9 metro areas?
At the rate Google is going, is it too soon to speculate over Fiber Dojos popping up in Japan?
These Google Fiber related positions include: "City Manager", "Community Impact Manager" and "Plant Manager" in all potential Google Fiber cities. Perplexing inconsistences abound, such as Portland, Phoenix, San Jose and Atlanta positions being listed as local. Whereas San Antonio, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Nashville are listed as telecommute positions.
One is inclined to speculate as to what these job postings mean despite Google's disclaimer: "Not all cities where we're exploring hiring a team will necessarily become Google Fiber cities." Would Google post jobs as an act of posturing much like AT&T's supposed "Gigabit smoke screen" bluff? Or, should we expect to see these so called Fiber Huts springing up like so many mushrooms after a heavy rain in an additional 9 metro areas?
At the rate Google is going, is it too soon to speculate over Fiber Dojos popping up in Japan?
Where are the openings for masseuses, escorts, and pole dancers?
- disappointed
I'd say he was on par with the politicians in the US today. They couldn't care less about broadband, freedom of speech or net neutrality. The only thing that matters is money and power and that means pulling their pants down infront of rich corporations. But keep doing it. Your country will be even less relevant in tech. And you are in for a big surprise when you as citizens will need to pay that national debt...
Fiber Dojos in Japan and Fiber Taco Stands in Mexico and Fiber Curling Centers in Canada, oh my!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
"Even as a massive firestorm burns uncontrollably threatening to scorch the very foundations of the internet"
Sounds like we've got an experience porn writer trying to change to technical writing.
"perplexing inconsistencies." Yep, sounds like the future of Google Fiber.
Yet another thing that google has no fucking clue what to do with, except lose money - but somehow, some way - they'll make it up in volume.
you're a creeper
Whatever you say Hitler!!
Long ago, I worked for a little company in one state, that bought a big company in another state (don't ask), and the big company had a union shop. At some point they were trying to negotiate something with the union, and they weren't getting what they wanted, so the next week they advertise 300 job openings in the local city paper, like they were going to move the entire shop in-state and just cut the union loose.
Nothing ever came of it.
Nah.. We will do like any other corporation out there and declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy, change our name and move on.
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good way to get H1B workers in and then after hire you can say move to CA at your own cost in 1 week or your gone. H1B must keep the job or be kicked out of the usa.
Translation: Head off all the PR pitfalls and political BS so that we can get digging... repeat after me...net neu-tra-li-ty! co-mu-ni-ty!
Communicate directly with community leaders and residents about Fiberhood design and Rally process (i.e., public speaking at homeowner associations, hosted events, and other local gatherings, as well as educational outreach to opinion leaders, community organizations, and local media).
Manage relationships and communications around our Community Connections program, which will offer free gigabit connectivity to eligible organizations.
Identify and build champions in digitally disconnected communities, drive and support digital literacy partnerships, and promote adoption of our “no monthly fee” broadband service.
Handle escalations that could have a PR or broad community risk (e.g. construction-related disruptions) and ensure that community needs are communicated to cross-functional Google Fiber business teams.
Leverage our future flagship event space as an asset to the entire community.
> AT&T indefinitely halting future GigaPower FTTH rollouts due to uncertainty over the future of net neutrality
(1) The AT&T fiber-to-the-home rollouts are non-existent for all practical purposes
(2) They walked back that bluff anyway
AT&T Fiber-to-the-Press-Release reinstated.
You misspelled 'Stalin'
Make that Chapter 7. Chapter 11 would include a plan to actually come out of that debt
Neither this article nor your comment have anything to do with capitalism. It's no wonder your post is scored -1 without any moderation at all. That and your ideology died in the late 80's.
Besides, in DEEP contrast to every communist's philosophy and predictions, every self-identified communist society that survives to this day has either partially or fully incorporated capitalist concepts into their economy. The ones that didn't saw a big drop in GDP followed by total collapse, and among those, the ones who survived the longest were the ones that closed their borders to prevent their citizens from escaping to a capitalist country, essentially resorting to slavery.
So in other words, REAL communism turns into slavery, and never a government free utopia.
For an early precursor of what was to come, read about the complete history of the Icarians in Nauvoo, IL (it was a short one, by the way, but matches what I described above.)
Even as a massive firestorm burns uncontrollably threatening to scorch the very foundations of the internet....
Bennett Haselton fans rejoice. We have a new candidate for the most incoherent and mangled prose ever posted to Slashdot.
So Google is using its massive wealth to at least make a few small dents in the central planning quagmire that has granted all sorts of telecomm monopolies and seriously screwed up the progress of technology; everywhere Google exerts some competitive pressure the incumbents react and/or people get Google Fiber connections directly, improving their conditions, but ...
what we need more of is central planning, and less capitalistic drive to outcompete the extant market players. Sheesh - some people just can't handle cause and effect.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
No we need a dictator ME!
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
This just means that Google is at the last half of stage 2 here in Phoenix. They still have to prove it is economy viable to roll out fiber here. That means enough people paying a subscription to be also able to roll out the free accounts, and people agreeing to the conditions of the free accounts. If they can not get the number to support the rollout then it will never get past stage 3 and a full rollout. Then they will just close shop here.
Took you this long to figure that out?
You want to know that a company is up to? Check their job postings. Sure some will mangle details, there are limits to that mangling.
Is there any correlation between how they posted the job offering and which cities they have announced in?
Or maybe old posting were plan A and new are plan B?
Profits depend on take rate.
As for making money, if they only serve neighborhoods that are willing to sign up, how can they loose?
Seems like the offer is both a fair deal and a way to finance a serious fiber buildout.
I don't see how anything relating to equal access from the customer side from the FCC could upset this offer.
It's really weird that AT&T is not doing the same thing.
Maybe their cost basis is higher.
Of maybe Google is finding some other value in the deal, Hopefully not Comcast like access to more eyeballs.
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http://wraltechwire.com/no-goo...
And though the above two links only show this for Raleigh and Atlanta, I'll assume the same promise was made to all the potential new cities.
Is there any correlation between how they posted the job offering and which cities they have announced in?
Or maybe old posting were plan A and new are plan B?
If I was a gambling type, I'd wager the cities Google is posting for "local" candidates are the winners and the "telecommuter" position cities are the losers. Nice to see that Google's momentum in the ISP market not only isn't slowing down, but in fact is accelerating.
maybe Google is finding some other value in the deal, Hopefully not Comcast like access to more eyeballs.
Let me tell you about extra value... Who isn't sick of Google not being able to do real time deep packet inspection on all our layer 7 content? I'm tired of getting metro-sexual fashion ads showing guys in tight jeans, when all I really care about is monster trucks and WWF wrestling events. Maybe Google will be able to get the hint finally once they have access to my entire data stream. Did you hear that Google-bots, BIG TRUCKS!?!!
Jimbob "Admiral" McGif
QUOTE1 "Is there any correlation between how they posted the job offering and which cities they have announced in? Or maybe old posting were plan A and new are plan B?"
QUOTE2 "maybe Google is finding some other value in the deal, Hopefully not Comcast like access to more eyeballs."
Jimbob "Admiral" McGif
I'd say my submission was a bit flowery and hyperbolic in its opening statement, but not mangled and incoherent. Mostly overly dramatic, as a metaphor like "scorched foundations" perhaps implies a bit more damage than AT&T dropping the ball with their gigabit fiber deployment. It's not like the internet is set to shut down or anything similarly serious. That having been said, for the true internet connoisseur, perhaps this country's gigabit rollout IS important enough to warrant such strong analogies.
Jimbob "Admiral" McGif
This job needs to be local because google has a tax law problem in Oregon that it has to overcome.
That historically leads to war as the debtor reposses the unpaid value in the form if REAL Capital (trilioon dollar factories, gold reserves, and natural resources)
Why do the telecommute positions have cities at all?
Except, you've forgotten that Research Triangle exists around Raleigh. You /can/ walk out the door, go down two doors and apply for a position at some other tech company. Raleigh's tech growth is #2 in the nation at 54.7% since 2003 according to Forbes. That's why we've had such a massive population growth, particularly from the northeast. Nashville is #4 on that same list. Charlotte is /massive/ in the financial sector, with plenty of tech jobs to back that up, and while not as particularly powerhouse-y as Raleigh in the tech sector, is still exhibiting huge growth as a result of the financial sector.
Way to be ignorant there, buddy. ;)
Shhh. Don't tell him about all the technical people outside of the west coast. Then he might be interested in poaching them.
They haven't even rolled out fibre to 10% of Kansas City yet. Pricks
I suspect that they want people who live locally and are familiar with the location for all the jobs. The distinction isn't where you live, it's whether Google has an office there or plans to open one. If they have an office it's considered a local job, if they don't it's a telecommute job.
Google already has an Atlanta office, San Jose is close enough to the Googleplex for that person to be based there. Another post suggested that they will have to open in Portland for legal reasons. That leaves only Phoenix, and that's a likely location for a new Google office. Not sure why they're not considering opening an office in the Research Triangle; the other two southern cities are not prime locations for them. San Antonio is a bit too far from their office in Austin to want to base that person there.