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Google Fiber offers gigabit Internet access -- speeds 100 times faster than national averages -- for just $70 per month.Google I've seen the future. It's called gigabit Internet by Google Fiber, and it just launched in my hometown of Provo, Utah, the second of three scheduled cities to get speeds that are 100 times faster than the rest of America.

The expenses that come with starting up a business facility can be quite large. This is especially true for those needing to install their own fiber optic lines. The process of laying down fiber optic cable from a provider facility to your own is long and expensive.

This is a little information about the Google fiber optic internet project.

With the "irrational exuberance" of the early Internet economy, speculators spent billions laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable for backhaul, expecting Internet use would continue growing at the unprecedented rates of the late 1990s. As part of the great dot com bust of 2000, however, most of the speculators went bust, leaving so-called "dark fiber" to wait for demand to catch up.

Remember when AT&T issued a high-decibel shriek that reclassifying ISPs as common carriers would kill off its ability to invest in future network buildouts and upgrades? Well, it turns out that not every ISP thinks that way.