The whole reason Google is developing Fiber? They want everyone in the US to have a fat pipe so they can deliver services &#x2F; advertising over it. They cherry-picked a few markets where overbuilding is potentially profitable and post stories about it all over Google News. That puts pressure on ISPs to deliver a better product, because honestly customers didn&#x27;t see a need for gigabit pipes before. They still don&#x27;t really, but Google tells them they need it so people think they do.<p>Google will never expand Fiber to the entire country, and I&#x27;d be surprised if they don&#x27;t sell the infrastructure to another company in 5-10 years once they&#x27;ve achieved their goals. If the ISPs are providing better service, customers can upload more personal &#x2F; sensor data to the cloud for Google to mine, and Google can cram more ad-laden services down the pipes. It&#x27;s a win&#x2F;win for them.<p>This whole endeavor is about Google flexing its muscles as a media power player to ensure their content&#x2F;ads aren&#x27;t held for ransom by any ISPs. Any company can try to build a national fiber network; but it takes Google (and their army of media contacts thanks to Google News) to talk this much about what amounts to a minuscule infrastructure investment (~$150 million over 5 years - or about what Comcast spends on infrastructure in a week).