I live in San Antonio, a city where Google Fiber has been an option to a good part of the city for many years. When they came to town standard minimum speeds of competitors bumped from 20-50mb/s to 100-300mb/s almost overnight. Meanwhile, my family and friends just a couple of hours away in Houston were stuck with baseline options in that original range for years until AT&T rolled out their own 1gig offering much more recently.

If nothing else they have proved the competition was needed.