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		mayneack on April 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas I wonder if this timeline is slow enough for a given city's cable monopoly to respond with price/terms/bandwidth competition in time to head off google fiber. Doesn't mean they will, but I would think that this is slow enough that they could theoretically ramp it up.

jsz0 on April 10, 2013 | [–]

I'm sure TWC will now prioritize Austin as one of their first DOCSIS 3.1 deployments so they will likely be doing 300-500Mbit/sec at minimum by then.

mayneack on April 9, 2013 | [–]

I guess this is my answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5521343

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