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		<title>Verizon promo gives gigabit Fios customers free Google Stadia bundles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The bundle does give you a Chromecast Ultra and Stadia controller to keep, but you&#8217;re getting the same three-month trial of Stadia Pro that any Premiere Edition buyer gets. You&#8217;ll have to keep subscribing at $10 per month if you want Pro features beyond that, or else resign yourself to using the free 1080p [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The bundle does give you a Chromecast Ultra and Stadia controller to keep, but you&#8217;re getting the same three-month trial of Stadia Pro that any Premiere Edition buyer gets.  You&#8217;ll have to keep subscribing at $10 per month if you want Pro features beyond that, or else resign yourself to using the free 1080p tier when it&#8217;s ready.  You also have to use the promo code for Stadia within 60 days of receiving it, so you can&#8217;t sit on the deal until there are <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-16-stadia-120-games-2020.html">enough games</a> to make you happy.</p>
<p>This does stack on top of the <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019-10-22-vaerizon-disney-plus-12-months-free.html">Disney+ one-year deal</a>, mind you, and you can always cancel before the Stadia Pro trial is over.  Think of it as a way to flex your internet connection&#8217;s muscle and wind up with a couple of goodies when all is said and done.</p>
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		<title>Google Fiber drops its 100Mbps tier in favor of gigabit-only service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The service started at a time when gigabit access was rare, and the average American internet speed was &#8220;crawling in single digits,&#8221; according to Google. Flash forward to 2019 and it&#8217;s a different story, with AT&#38;T, Comcast and others offering gigabit broadband options. Google also pointed to rapidly growing demands on internet connections like [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The service started at a time when gigabit access was rare, and the average American internet speed was &#8220;crawling in single digits,&#8221; according to Google.  Flash forward to 2019 and it&#8217;s a different story, with <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2014/04/21/att-gigapower-expansion/">AT&amp;T</a>, <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/10/comcast-xfinity-home-automatino-controls-for-internet-customers/">Comcast</a> and others offering gigabit broadband options.  Google also pointed to rapidly growing demands on internet connections like streaming video, smart home devices and (of course) <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-29-stadia-xcloud-comparison-google-microsoft-game-streaming.html">gaming</a>.</p>
<p>Appropriately, Google said it would give new Fiber customers the option to sign up for <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/30/youtube-tv-available-fire-tv/">YouTube TV</a> at the same time, starting on December 5th.</p>
<p>To a degree, Google&#8217;s decision reflects practical reality.  You&#8217;re typically choosing Fiber for the speed, so why keep a plan that&#8217;s neither particularly fast nor the cheapest?  This still takes an option away, though, and it might put Fiber out of reach for homes where $70 broadband is too costly.</p>
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		<title>Google, Cuba deal could bring faster internet to the island</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] Once the fiber optic cable is in place, Cuban citizens will have faster access to content hosted on Google servers, and the Cuban government will see cost savings. At the moment, ETECSA must pay third-party fees for passing traffic to sites like YouTube, Google Maps and Google.com. Google and Cuba have a history of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Once the fiber optic cable is in place, Cuban citizens will have faster access to content hosted on Google servers, and the Cuban government will see cost savings. At the moment, ETECSA must pay third-party fees for passing traffic to sites like YouTube, Google Maps and Google.com.</p>
<p>Google and Cuba have a history of collaboration. Even before <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2014/12/17/cuba-gets-access-to-us-telcos/">US-Cuba relations improved</a>, Google made <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2014/08/21/google-chrome-cuba/">Chrome freely available</a> throughout the country. In 2016, <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/21/google-plans-to-bring-internet-to-cuba-obama-says/">Obama touted</a> Google&#8217;s plans to bring internet to Cuba. Shortly after, Google <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/13/cuba-google-internet-server-agreement/">installed local servers</a> to speed up its services, and in 2017, Google became the <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/26/google-becomes-first-foreign-internet-company-to-go-live-in-cuba/">first foreign internet company</a> to go live on the island.</p>
<p>Considering that Cuba first <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/20/cuba-home-internet-access/">tested home internet</a> in 2016 and just <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/18/cuba-mobile-internet-phones-nationwide/">launched mobile internet</a> nationwide last summer, the country has come a long way in a relatively short span. While there&#8217;s no proposed timeline for the new fiber optic cable, this agreement does establish a team of engineers to sort through the necessary details and get the project started.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="es">Firma <a href="https://twitter.com/ETECSA_Cuba?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ETECSA_Cuba</a> Memorándum de Entendimiento con <a href="https://twitter.com/Google?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Google</a> para iniciar negociaciones sobre el servicio de intercambio de tráfico en Internet, que mejorará la calidad de acceso a los contenidos, como parte de la estrategia de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cuba</a> para el desarrollo y la informatización. <a href="https://t.co/uHQ7hjpINX">pic.twitter.com/uHQ7hjpINX</a></p>
<p>— ETECSA (@ETECSA_Cuba) <a href="https://twitter.com/ETECSA_Cuba/status/1111258238270476288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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