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Google Fiber To Acquire Gigabit Internet Provider Webpass (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google Fiber has announced a deal to acquire high-speed internet service provider Webpass. Webpass is a 13-year-old company that provides high-speed internet, including gigabit service, for businesses and residential customers across parts of the U.S.. Webpass is most widely known in California, with service running in San Fransisco, Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley and San Diego. It also has service in Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Chicago, and Boston. The President of Webpass, Charles Barr, said in a blog post: "Joining Google Fiber will be a great development for our users because the companies share the same vision of the future and commitment to the customer," he said. "Google Fiber's resources will enable Webpass to grow faster and reach many more customers than we could as a standalone company." The acquisition should help Google Fiber with its plans to grow to more than 20 U.S. cities in the near future, helping connect to business and residential markets.
... with forced binding arbitration clauses too?
Not to be a jerk about it but... so what? Why is it that people want to live in the sticks and cry that they don't have everything that places that have more than 10,000 people per square mile have? I'm a suburbanite and I'm grateful for what I have (Comcast that tests at about 30megs a second). There are places less than 5 miles from my house where that isn't possible. Sure, I'd like a bit more of the rural life but I realize that this is one of the places I'd have to accept that country living is what they make it seem on HGTV. I'll give it a few years. Maybe by the time I retire I can actually live someplace with a population density under 20/sqm and get good internet service but I'm not going to fool myself that it makes good business sense to do it today.