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Woo! Moving to Mountain View in June, so I'm excited to see this.

On another note, I wonder if this will have any impact on the Comcast/Time Warner merger. Comcast has specifically called out Google Fiber as a source of legitimate competition in defending the merger[1]. With the announcement that Google could increase the number of Fiber cities 10-fold, that claim might have a little more weight.

1. http://gigaom.com/2014/02/13/comcast-cites-competition-from-...

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I've been hearing that there will be no real threat to that merger. If that's true, then I see this as a real threat to the new Comcast; basically Google saying "you will have real competition even if you are massive".

Edit: Otherwise, why would they announce this at this stage? They've only announced other cities when they were certain.

> "Otherwise, why would they announce this at this stage?"

Drum up local interest and support to help with any local political roadblocks.

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