I agree with most of this except for the bit about any of the first locations being in Comcast territory.  I&#x27;m a Google Fiber subscriber in Provo, UT.  Before Google got here I was on Comcast.<p>Our cap was 50 Mbit which wasn&#x27;t bad, but then when Google came in, Comcast upped that plan to 250 Mbit with no hardware upgrades or anything for the same price which was really nice.<p>The main thing I noticed though is that reliability with Google is a lot higher.  My Comcast connection would go down for an hour or two about once a week, but my fiber connection seems to always be fine.<p>As far as cities bending over backwards, Provo definitely did that.  We had put in a citywide fiber network using a $40 million bond and then ended up selling it to Google for $1.  It was definitely the best move considering the company that had been operating it before defaulted on their payments, but Provo will still be paying for the network for 12 years.