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92-659: Google Fiber , sometimes stylized as GFiber , is a fiber broadband Internet service operated by Google Fiber Inc. , a subsidiary of Alphabet , servicing a growing number of households in cities in 19 states across the United States . In mid-2016, Google Fiber was estimated to have about 453,000 broadband customers. The service was first introduced in 2012 in the Kansas City metropolitan area , growing to include twenty Kansas City area suburbs within three years. Initially proposed as an experimental project, Google Fiber

184-467: A 12 VDC power supply fed over several tens of meters of cable. Power line networking deployments also rely on FTTC. Using the IEEE P1901 protocol (or its predecessor HomePlug AV ) existing electric service cables move up to 1 Gbit/s from the curb/pole/cabinet into every AC electrical outlet in the home—coverage equivalent to a robust Wi-Fi implementation, with the added advantage of

276-403: A blast email to early adopters of Google Fiber announcing that they were indeed behind the visible construction across San Antonio, Texas . A few details were given about the vast extent of the construction that was being undertaken, Google was in the process of deploying about 4,000 linear miles (6,500 km) of fiber-optic cable throughout San Antonio . In advance of the imminent deployment of

368-491: A federal judge said Fubo was likely to be successful in its lawsuit against the Venu Sports joint venture and awarded the company a preliminary injunction to stop its launch. The Walt Disney Company , Fox Corporation , and Warner Bros. Discovery said they would appeal the ruling, while Fubo said it would continue to press on with its lawsuit against the joint venture. In September 2024, Fubo announced that it had become

460-432: A halfway measure between fixed wireless and FTTH, with special advantages for smart appliances and electric vehicles that rely on PLC use already. Operators around the world have been rolling out high-speed Internet access networks since the mid-2000s. Some used a network topology known as Active Ethernet Point-to-Point to deliver services from its central office directly into subscribers' homes. Fiber termination

552-457: A list of measures to promote the deployment of fast broadband and next-generation access networks. Portugal Telecom plans to complete its fiber-to-the-home nationwide roll out by 2020. Currently 200 Mbit/s down, 100 Mbit/s up costs €22 per month. Between September 2017 and March 2019, the number of European FTTH and FTTB subscribers increased by nearly 16%. By 2025, the total number of premises passed by FTTH and FTTB infrastructure

644-426: A location. Each switching cabinet can handle up to 1,000 customers, although 400–500 is more typical. This neighborhood equipment performs layer 2 switching or layer 3 switching and routing, offloading full layer 3 routing to the carrier's central office. The IEEE 802.3ah standard enables service providers to deliver up to 1000 Mbit/s , full-duplex , over one single-mode optical fiber FTTP, depending on

736-569: A long-awaited deal with Disney Media Networks to bring ESPN Inc. , and Walt Disney Television (including ESPN and its networks and ABC , along with children's networks such as Disney Channel ) to the sports-focused streaming service sometime in the summer. The deal was to make FuboTV a "force in sports streaming," according to Fortune . It would go live on August 1. On July 1, 2020, FuboTV dropped WarnerMedia networks, including CNN , TBS and TNT . On September 15, 2020, FuboTV said it expected to close 2020 with 410,000–420,000 subscribers as

828-428: A lot of bandwidth, but they cost more because of the fiber and the equipment in the central office. Direct fiber is generally favored by new entrants and competitive operators. A benefit is that no layer 2 networking technologies are excluded, whether passive optical network (PON), active optical network (AON), or other. Any form of regulatory remedy is possible using this topology. More commonly, each fiber leaving

920-640: A number of operators, including AT&T in the United States, Germany's Deutsche Telekom , Greece 's OTE , Swisscom, TIM in Italy, Proximus in Belgium, nbn™ in Australia , and Canadian operators Telus , Cogeco and Bell Canada . The simplest optical distribution network architecture is direct fiber: each fiber leaving the central office goes to exactly one customer. These networks can support

1012-540: A pilot program where we'll connect a limited number of small businesses to our network". On September 10, 2015, Google tweeted that it was exploring the possibility of adding Irvine and San Diego, California , as future expansion cities. On October 28, 2015, Jill Szuchmacher, Google Fiber Director of Expansion, announced ongoing negotiations with local governments in Jacksonville, Florida , Tampa, Florida , and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . Szuchmacher stated that Google

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1104-543: A result of the return of sports during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company also announced it was approved to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) "conditional upon successful pricing of this offering, under the ticker symbol FUBO." On October 7, 2020, fuboTV completed its initial public offering as a New York Stock Exchange company, raising roughly $ 183 million in proceeds. FuboTV began trading on

1196-436: A single cable for power and data. By avoiding new cable and its cost and liabilities, FTTC costs less to deploy. However, it also has historically had lower bandwidth potential than FTTP. In practice, the relative advantage of fiber depends on the bandwidth available for backhaul , usage-based billing restrictions that prevent full use of last-mile capabilities, and customer premises equipment and maintenance restrictions, and

1288-725: A sports-first service, but it has since expanded its programming to include channels that fall under other genres, including ones with reality shows, premium movies and cable news. As of 2018 , Fubo was available in Canada, Spain and the United States. In the U.S., there are several service options with different channel lineups, including a base package of over 100 linear content channels, which also include free content streams that are found on competing services. A number of add-on packages are also available for viewers who want more programming options, Spanish-language content, premium movie networks or additional features. As of November 2024 ,

1380-435: A statement that it was forced to remove the content because Warner Bros. Discovery didn't engage in good-faith negotiations and accused Warner Bros. Discovery of "abuse of massive market power that ultimately limits consumer choice." In June 2024, Comcast announced that it had signed a deal with Fubo to make the streaming service available to its Xfinity Flex or Xumo Stream Box customers, as well as Xumo TVs. In August 2024,

1472-736: A strategic review. The company abandoned its sportsbook entirely by October. Ryan Reynolds took an equity stake in FuboTV in August 2022. Reynolds, his Maximum Effort studio and Fubo announced a co-production partnership that will include the launch of the Maximum Effort Channel on FuboTV. Reynolds and his team will create original content for the forthcoming channel. In December 2022, FuboTV announced content partnerships with Scripps Networks and Sinclair Broadcast Group 's 19 Bally Sports regional sports networks. Fubo promised

1564-480: A third stream for $ 5.99 per month. Fubo became the second over-the-top internet television service to get integrated to the TV app on Apple TV , iPhone, and iPad. Fubo guide is not compatible with access technologies such as iOS Voice Over, Android Talk Back and JAWS . Fubo earned the highest score in J.D. Power 's customer satisfaction survey among live TV streaming providers in 2022, with 789 points in aggregate on

1656-508: A trial in a residential community of Palo Alto, California . On March 30 of the same year, Kansas City, Kansas , was selected as the first city to receive Google Fiber. In 2013, Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah, were announced as expansion cities for Google Fiber on April 9 and 17 respectively. Google found that affluent neighborhoods in Kansas City signed up for the faster service while those in poorer neighborhoods did not sign up for even

1748-402: A variety of factors, such as the physical geography of the local environment, number of anticipated subscribers, and labor force skill. FTTN/C is seen as an interim step towards full FTTH and in many cases triple-play services delivered using this approach to provide up to around 100 Mbit/s have been proven to grow subscriber numbers and ARPU considerably FTTN/C is currently used by

1840-418: A way to deliver multiple services over open-access networks in the United States. Once on private property, the signal is typically converted into an electrical format. FuboTV Launched on January 1, 2015, as a soccer streaming service, Fubo changed to an all-sports service in 2017 and then to a virtual multichannel video programming distributor (vMVPD) model. As a vMVPD, Fubo still markets itself as

1932-442: Is FTTB. Fiber to the curb/cabinet (FTTC) is a telecommunications system based on fiber-optic cables run to a platform that serves several customers. Each of these customers has a connection to this platform via coaxial cable or twisted pair . The "curb" is an abstraction and can just as easily mean a pole-mounted device or communications closet or shed. Typically any system terminating fiber within 300 m (1,000 ft) of

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2024-759: Is a common way of delivering triple- and quad-play (voice, video, data, and mobile) services over both fiber and hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks. Active PPPoE uses dedicated fiber from an operator's central office all the way to the subscribers' homes, while hybrid networks (often FTTN) use it to transport data via fiber to an intermediate point to ensure sufficiently high throughput speeds over last-mile copper connections. This approach has become increasingly popular in recent years with telecoms service providers in both North America ( AT&T , Telus , for example) and Europe's Fastweb , Telecom Italia , Telekom Austria and Deutsche Telekom , for example. Google has also looked into this approach, amongst others, as

2116-492: Is available on all Fubo channels, including live sports and news. In October 2024, an agreement with Chicago Sports Network was announced. Fubo built its tech stack internally and, in 2017, launched features like Cloud DVR storage, pausing and unpausing live streams and lookback of previously aired content for 72 hours Fubo offers two simultaneous streams as part of its base subscription package and, in March 2018, introduced

2208-712: Is expected to reach 187 million throughout Europe. Google Fiber provides speed of up to 8 Gbit/s . Active Line Access is an evolving standard for the provision of services over FTTP networks in the United Kingdom proposed by the regulator Ofcom and developed by the Network Interoperability Consultative Committee. Most FTTH deployments follow one of four primary architecture types: centralized split, distributed split, star architecture, or daisy-chaining. Fiber network developers choose architectures based on

2300-859: Is greater than 24 Mbit/s  – this threshold is commonly considered to be the maximum speed that can be supported on current generation (copper-based) networks." A similar network called a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network is used by cable television operators but is usually not synonymous with "fiber In the loop", although similar advanced services are provided by the HFC networks. Fixed wireless and mobile wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi , WiMAX and 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) are an alternative for providing Internet access . The telecommunications industry differentiates between several distinct FTTX configurations. The terms in most widespread use today are: To promote consistency, especially when comparing FTTH penetration rates between countries,

2392-505: Is interested in the installation of Google Fiber networks in each of the cities and that construction could take up to eighteen months once the project is underway. In October 2016, those plans were put on hold. On December 8, 2015, the Seattle City Council's Director of Communications replied to a tweet indicating that the city was in the process of applying for Google Fiber service. On December 8, 2015, Jill Szuchmacher said

2484-417: Is sometimes given the acronym FTTLA (fiber-to-the-last-amplifier) when it replaces analog amplifiers up to the last one before the customer (or neighborhood of customers). FTTC allows delivery of broadband services such as high-speed internet. Usually, existing wire is used with communications protocols such as broadband cable access (typically DOCSIS ) or some form of DSL connecting the curb/cabinet and

2576-417: Is the key method used to drive next-generation access ( NGA ), which describes a significant upgrade to the broadband available by making a step change in speed and quality of the service. This is typically thought of as asymmetrical with a download speed of 24 Mbit/s plus and a fast upload speed. Ofcom have defined super-fast broadband as "broadband products that provide a maximum download speed that

2668-696: The Big Ten Network . In May 2019, FuboTV and FanDuel partnered to integrate sports betting data on the live TV streaming service. The deal included carriage of FanDuel's horse racing networks, TVG (now FanDuel TV ) and TVG2 (now FanDuel Racing ). On June 19, 2019, FuboTV announced that it will be adding the Discovery Networks , joining the line up of Scripps Networks that were acquired by Discovery. ViacomCBS channels launched on FuboTV in Spain in 2020. On January 1, 2020, FuboTV dropped

2760-527: The FCC's ACP Affordable Connectivity Program with discounted rates . In February 2020, Google Fiber stopped offering TV service directly to new customers. Instead, during the sign-up process for Google Fiber, customers are presented with promotions for three virtual MVPD services: sister company YouTube TV , as well as FuboTV and (later) Philo . TV service was maintained for existing clients until early 2022. In order to avoid underground cabling complexity for

2852-775: The Fox Sports Networks , citing increasing carriage costs after the acquisition of the channels by the Sinclair Broadcast Group . FuboTV launched the NHL Network on March 9, 2020, with plans to add the MLB Network and MLB Strike Zone , allowing it to have all four professional sports league networks on its platform. On March 23, 2020, fuboTV was acquired by FaceBank Group, a publicly listed virtual entertainment technology company founded by media technology entrepreneur John Textor . fuboTV

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2944-626: The MLB and NBA to become an Authorized Gaming Operator of each league. These agreements will provide access to official data and include league marks and logos within Fubo Sportsbook once it is rolled out. FuboTV announced in May 2021 that the first quarter was its strongest in its history, delivering $ 119.7 million in revenue, an increase of 135% year-over-year, and growing total subscribers to 590,430, up 105% year-over-year. CEO David Gandler called

3036-477: The Maximum Effort Channel in partnership with Ryan Reynolds . In addition to Fubo, the channel is available on free streaming platforms like Amazon's Freevee , Xumo Play and Tubi . One week later, Fubo updated its Spanish-language package to include content from Canela.TV. In September 2023, a resident of Illinois filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Fubo in state court, accusing

3128-742: The broadband wars. In October 2023 Google Fiber rebranded to GFiber and announced plans to begin offering 20Gig internet and Wi-Fi 7 hardware in the near future. Google Fiber offers four options, depending on location: Fiber 1 Gig, 2 Gig, 5 Gig , 8 Gig and an option for home phone service. All speed tiers include one terabyte of storage on Google Drive service. Google Fiber offers four different service plans to its customers (depending on market/region): Google Wifi 1 Mesh Extender Includes up to 2 Mesh Extenders Includes up to 2 Mesh Extenders Google also offers free Google Fiber Internet connectivity in each of its markets to select public and affordable housing properties. Google Fiber participates in

3220-404: The last mile , Google Fiber relies on aggregators dubbed Google Fiber Huts . From these Google Fiber Huts, the fiber cables travel along utility poles into neighborhoods and homes, and stop at a Fiber Jack (an optical network terminal or ONT) in each home. The estimated cost of wiring a fiber network like Google Fiber into a major American city was $ 1 billion in 2016. The initial location

3312-445: The local loop used for last mile telecommunications . As fiber optic cables are able to carry much more data than copper cables, especially over long distances, copper telephone networks built in the 20th century are being replaced by fiber. FTTX is a generalization for several configurations of fiber deployment, arranged into two groups: FTTP/FTTH/FTTB (fiber laid all the way to the premises/home/building) and FTTC/N (fiber laid to

3404-467: The AON. Each signal leaving the central office is directed only to the customer for whom it is intended. Incoming signals from the customers avoid colliding at the intersection because the powered equipment there provides buffering . Active Ethernet (a type of Ethernet in the first mile ) is a common AON, which uses optical Ethernet switches to distribute the signal, incorporating the customers' premises and

3496-718: The Canadian media rights to the Premier League , replacing DAZN. The company's subsidiary, Fubo Gaming, announced in early February 2022 it had completed 10 market access for Fubo Sportsbook (Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas) and was live in two states (Arizona, Iowa). It promised to launch in additional states, pending requisite regulatory approvals. On May 25, 2022, GAC Living became available on FuboTV. FuboTV launched pick'em games in June 2022. The company said

3588-632: The City Council over concerns about whether an indemnification clause that Google required might force the city to repair any damage caused by the project. As of July 2014, Overland Park's City Council had voted on a deal that would allow for Google Fiber. Soon after, the city appeared on Google Fiber's website. On July 12, 2016, sign-ups opened in Highland Creek . On October 4, 2016, sign-ups opened in Prosperity Village. In

3680-490: The December 2020 Balto Sports acquisition, the company said it plans to launch a free to play gaming app by the summer of 2021. The app will be available to all consumers nationwide, whether they are FuboTV subscribers or not. The company also said it plans to integrate free gaming into the FuboTV platform. Additionally, FuboTV announced it intends to acquire sports gaming company Vigtory and will launch its own sportsbook before

3772-541: The Fiber for Italy initiative, had an even more ambitious plan to bring fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-business to 138 cities by 2018. By the end of December 2010, the total number of fiber-to-the-home enabled homes had passed 2.5 million, with more than 348,000 subscribers. ) In September 2010, the European Commission published a new "Recommendation for Regulated Access to NGA Networks" along with

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3864-623: The NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. During its first five years, investors in FuboTV included AMC Networks , Luminari Capital, Northzone, Sky, and Scripps Networks Interactive . FuboTV was named to Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups list in 2019. According to Fast Company, FuboTV still calls itself "sports-first", but instead of being "the Netflix of soccer", it is pitching itself as a direct competitor to cable television and live-streaming bundles such as Sling TV and AT&T TV (now DirecTV Stream ). FuboTV

3956-488: The NYSE under the ticker symbol "FUBO" on October 8, 2020, as fuboTV shares jumped 10% in their market debut. FuboTV delivered what it said was record revenue and subscriber numbers during the third quarter of 2020. The company also announced its plans to enter the online sports wagering market with details to be announced. In December 2020, FuboTV acquired Balto Sports, which owns contest automation software. The company said

4048-556: The OTC under the ticker symbol FUBO. In the months following the merger, John Textor resigned his post as Executive Chairman, and the company named former Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. as Executive Chairman of the Board. Other directors, such as early Spotify investor Par-Jorgen Parson and venture capitalist Daniel Leff were also named to the Board. All three were early investors in FuboTV. In June 2020, FuboTV announced

4140-606: The South American CONMEBOL 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches that month. The company said they plan to officially launch free gaming timed to the NFL season. FuboTV also said it expects gaming to be an engagement driver and noted it is the first step on its gaming roadmap, which will include the launch of Fubo Sportsbook later in 2021. On June 30, 2021, FuboTV dropped services from A&E Networks , among them included History , A&E and Lifetime . FuboTV

4232-999: The Sylvan Park neighborhood in West Nashville had Google Fiber service officially operating, making Nashville a city currently with Google Fiber service. On February 22, 2016, Google announced that Google Fiber would expand into Huntsville, Alabama . Google Fiber announced it would start offering high-speed Internet, TV and telephone service in north Huntsville on May 23, 2017. On April 2, 2018, Huntsville Utilities continues to build fiber in Southeast Huntsville which have been turned over to Google fiber to service. Google Fiber announced it would start offering high-speed Internet, TV and telephone service in northeast West Des Moines on March 22, 2021. On January 27, 2015, Google announced that Google Fiber would expand into additional markets: On April 14, 2016, Google sent

4324-448: The U.S.—34 cities altogether—to work with us to explore what it would take to bring them Google Fiber." The remaining metropolitan areas where Fiber has not yet begun constructing are: Phoenix , Portland , San Antonio and San Jose . Of these, the following have yet to be selected by Google for fiber deployments: On April 15, 2014, Google began polling business users on their need for gigabit service, saying they would be "conducting

4416-1098: The United States, in Chattanooga , Tennessee , despite being conducted by power utility EPB , was FTTH rather than FTTC, reaching every subscriber in a 600-square-mile area. Monthly pricing of US$ 350 reflected this generally high cost of deployment. However, Chattanooga EPB has reduced the monthly pricing to US$ 70/month. Historically, both telephone and cable companies avoided hybrid networks using several different modes of transport from their point of presence into customer premises. The increased competitive cost pressure, availability of three different existing wire solutions, smart grid deployment requirements (as in Chattanooga), and better hybrid networking tools (with major vendors like Alcatel-Lucent and Qualcomm Atheros , and Wi-Fi solutions for edge networks , IEEE 1905 and IEEE 802.21 protocol efforts and SNMP improvements) all make FTTC deployments more likely in areas uneconomic to serve with FTTP/FTTH. In effect FTTC serves as

4508-548: The acquisition marked the first step of its online wagering strategy, which will start with free to play games and then expand into wagering integrated with its live streaming video. FuboTV added more premium entertainment with the launch of EPIX and STARZ channels in December 2020. It also reached an agreement with Nexstar Media Group to begin carrying WGN America in January 2021. In January, FuboTV announced more details of its expansion into online sports wagering. With

4600-543: The building can offer the highest speeds since the remaining segments can use standard Ethernet or coaxial cable. Fiber is often said to be "future-proof" because the data rate of the connection is usually limited by the terminal equipment rather than the fiber, permitting substantial speed improvements by equipment upgrades before the fiber itself must be upgraded. Still, the type and length of employed fibers chosen, e.g. multimode vs. single-mode, are critical for applicability for future connections of over 1 Gbit/s . With

4692-434: The cabinet is usually less than one mile in radius and can contain several hundred customers. FTTN allows delivery of broadband services such as high-speed internet. High-speed communications protocols such as broadband cable access (typically DOCSIS ) or some form of digital subscriber line (DSL) are used between the cabinet and the customers. Data rates vary according to the exact protocol used and according to how close

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4784-400: The cabinet/node, with copper wires completing the connection). Residential areas already served by balanced pair distribution plant call for a trade-off between cost and capacity. The closer the fiber head, the higher the cost of construction and the higher the channel capacity. In places not served by metallic facilities, little cost is saved by not running fiber to the home. Fiber to the x

4876-458: The central office into a large switched Ethernet network. Ethernet in the first mile deployments follow a point to point or star network topology and are often based on Fast Ethernet speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s . Such networks are identical to Ethernet computer networks used in businesses and academic institutions, except that their purpose is to connect homes and buildings to a central office rather than to connect computers and printers within

4968-405: The central office is actually shared by many customers. It is not until such a fiber gets relatively close to the customers that it is split into individual customer-specific fibers. AONs and PONs both achieve this split. AONs rely on electrically powered network equipment to distribute the signal, such as a switch or router . Normally, signals need an optical-electrical-optical transformation in

5060-553: The channels would launch "in the coming weeks," bringing the total number of regional sports channels on the service to over 35. On December 31, 2022, FuboTV removed channels owned and operated by AMC Networks , including AMC, BBC America, BBC World News, IFC, We TV and Sundance. In a letter to consumers, FuboTV said it would not provide refunds or credits to customers who prepaid for service. On January 6, 2023, FuboTV began notifying subscribers that they would raise their base subscription package to $ 74.99 per month. Additionally, for

5152-880: The cities where it was already installed. Since then, GFiber acquired Webpass to add presence in 5 additional states. In March 2022, Google Fiber announced it would bring high speed internet to the Des Moines , Iowa , metro area, making it the first expansion in five years. GFiber has resumed very active expansion in several new states. In August 2022, Google Fiber announced it would expand into 22 metro areas in five states ( Arizona , Colorado , Idaho , Nebraska , and Nevada ), including previously announced expansions into Mesa , Arizona, and Colorado Springs , Colorado, based on where it felt speeds were lagging. It also announced additional investment in North Carolina . CNET characterized this an example of fast fiber winning

5244-511: The common form of Gigabit Ethernet ( 1 Gbit/s ) runs over relatively economical category 5e , category 6 or 6A unshielded twisted-pair copper cabling but only to 100 m (300 ft). However, 1 Gbit/s Ethernet over fiber can easily reach tens of kilometers. Therefore, FTTP has been selected by every major communications provider in the world to carry data over long 1 Gbit/s symmetrical connections directly to consumer homes. FTTP configurations that bring fiber directly into

5336-500: The company of illegally sharing the private viewing history of its customers with potential third-party advertisers without first obtaining explicit consent. The case was remanded to federal court in October. Around the same time, Fubo was sued by Dish Network for allegedly violating various streaming-related patents. Fubo has denied the accusation. By the end of 2023, Fubo had fewer subscribers than Hulu, YouTube TV, and Sling TV, but

5428-542: The company says it has 1.991 million global paying subscribers, including 1.613 million subscribers in North America. FuboTV was co-founded in January 2015 by David Gandler ( CEO ), Alberto Horihuela ( CMO ), and Sung Ho Choi. At launch, FuboTV cost $ 7 per month and offered livestreams from soccer-centric channels. In early 2017, Fubo pivoted to become a broader streaming service, adding entertainment and news programming in addition to soccer and sports programming from

5520-490: The company will work with Chicago city leaders to collect information and study factors that could affect construction of Google Fiber. On June 14, 2016, Jill Szuchmacher said the company will work with Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings to try to bring another hub to Texas. Fiber-to-the-premises Fiber to the x ( FTTX ; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of

5612-459: The company, moving less central services and products into a new umbrella corporation, Alphabet Inc. As part of this restructuring plan, Google Fiber would become a subsidiary of Alphabet and would possibly become part of the Access and Energy business unit. In October 2016, all expansion plans were put on hold and some jobs were cut. Google said it would continue to provide Google Fiber service in

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5704-630: The cost of running fiber that can vary widely with geography and building type. In the United States and Canada, the largest deployment of FTTC was carried out by BellSouth Telecommunications . With the acquisition of BellSouth by AT&T , deployment of FTTC will end. Future deployments will be based on either FTTN or FTTP. Existing FTTC plant may be removed and replaced with FTTP. Verizon , meanwhile, announced in March 2010 they were winding down Verizon FiOS expansion, concentrating on completing their network in areas that already had FiOS franchises but were not deploying to new areas, suggesting that FTTH

5796-435: The customer is to the cabinet. Unlike FTTP, FTTN often uses existing coaxial or twisted-pair infrastructure to provide last mile service and is thus less costly to deploy. In the long term, however, its bandwidth potential is limited relative to implementations that bring the fiber still closer to the subscriber. A variant of this technique for cable television providers is used in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) system. It

5888-421: The customer premises equipment would be described as FTTC. Fiber to the node or neighborhood (FTTN), sometimes identified with and sometimes distinguished from fiber to the cabinet (FTTC), is a telecommunication architecture based on fiber-optic cables run to a cabinet serving a neighborhood. Customers typically connect to this cabinet using traditional coaxial cable or twisted pair wiring. The area served by

5980-602: The customers. In these protocols, the data rates vary according to the exact protocol used and according to how close the customer is to the cabinet. Where it is feasible to run new cable, both fiber and copper Ethernet are capable of connecting the "curb" with a full 100 Mbit/s or 1 Gbit/s connection. Even using relatively cheap outdoor category 5 copper over hundreds of meters, all Ethernet protocols including power over Ethernet (PoE) are supported . Most fixed wireless technologies rely on PoE, including Motorola Canopy , which has low-power radios capable of running on

6072-407: The distance exceeds 100 m (300 ft). Fiber to the premises (FTTP) is a form of fiber-optic communication delivery in which an optical fiber is run in an optical distribution network from the central office all the way to the premises occupied by the subscriber. The term "FTTP" has become ambiguous and may also refer to FTTC where the fiber terminates at a utility pole without reaching

6164-728: The end of the year. With the Vigtory acquisition, FuboTV will also receive Vigtory's pipeline of market access deals, including a completed agreement with Iowa through Casino Queen. Like free gaming, the company said it plans to launch the sportsbook as an app first before integrating it into the FuboTV user experience. FuboTV CEO told The Wall Street Journal he expects sports wagering to not only generate more revenue for FuboTV but also make it more likely that customers will pay closer attention to sports and tune in more often. In its fourth quarter 2020 earnings results reported in March 2021, FuboTV said it exceeded $ 100 million in quarterly revenue for

6256-638: The far Northwest and Northeast sides, including the pilot area in the Westover Hills neighborhood. After closing service in Louisville, Kentucky, the company said it learned from its challenges and refined its micro-trenching program to go deeper. According to the company, its Louisville microtrenching was as shallow as two inches. City staff said San Antonio's trenching depth was 6–8 inches. In April 2017, Google announced that Google Fiber would start construction in Louisville, Kentucky. Google Fiber got

6348-414: The first time, FuboTV rolled out a regional sports network fee to all subscribers who received such a channel. Customers with one regional sports channel will pay $ 10.99 a month, while customers who have two or more of those channels will pay $ 13.99 per month. Two months later, the service rebranded from FuboTV to Fubo, timed with the launch of their national brand campaign. On June 20, 2023, Fubo launched

6440-425: The first time. Also during its 2020 earnings report, FuboTV said it would launch free-to-play predictive gaming in the third quarter 2021. FuboTV also announced it closed the previously announced Vigtory acquisition and had established Fubo Gaming to oversee its entry into online sports wagering. Fubo Gaming is expected to launch Fubo Sportsbook in the fourth quarter 2021. Fubo also announced it signed agreements with

6532-617: The first virtual multichannel video programming distributor (vMVPD) to offer the ability for users to choose their own channels for multiviewing on Roku devices. Those who own Roku's Ultra devices were able to stream up to four channels at once, while those who own the Roku Express 4K and 4K+, along with the Roku Streaming Stick 4K and 4K+, would be able to stream two channels at once. The feature allows users to choose which two to four live channels to watch simultaneously and

6624-434: The free games would be live with select sports directly from its home page. Additionally, FuboTV subscribers can also scan a QR code in the TV watching experience to access Fubo Sportsbook and place real money wagers aligned with their picks. The sportsbook integration went live in the markets where Fubo Sportsbook operates, according to the company. In August 2022, FuboTV said it was putting its sports wagering business under

6716-675: The free option. In response to this digital divide , Google sent a team of 60 employees to the under-served areas to promote the Google Fiber service. Additionally, Google offered micro-grants to community organizations that want to start up digital literacy programs in Kansas City. The following are chronological announcements of service in the Kansas City metropolitan area . Neighborhoods are said to be selected based on demand: Google placed deployment in Overland Park, Kansas , on indefinite hold in October 2013, following delays by

6808-476: The moment it leaves the ISP's facilities until it reaches the customer, many ISPs prefer this technology. The downstream signal coming from the central office is broadcast to each customer premises sharing a fiber. Encryption is used to prevent eavesdropping. Upstream signals are combined using a multiple-access protocol, usually time-division multiple access (TDMA). Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)

6900-404: The new fiber network the direct competitors of Google Fiber, AT&T U-Verse , Time Warner Cable , and Grande Communications , dropped prices and increased the speeds of their networks. San Antonio, the seventh-largest city in the nation, was the largest project that Google Fiber had taken on to date. On August 5, 2015, expansion into San Antonio was announced. As of December 2016, construction

6992-587: The original announcement of 2015, the following areas were announced: In August 2016, sign-ups were opened. In the original announcement of 2015, the following areas of the Research Triangle of Raleigh–Durham, North Carolina , were announced: On September 13, 2016, sign-ups opened. The areas initially announced in February 2015 were: As of December 2016, construction is underway. Sign-ups are open. As of August 2017, Google Fiber announced that

7084-421: The premises. Fiber to the premises can be categorized according to where the optical fiber ends: An apartment building may provide an example of the distinction between FTTH and FTTB. If a fiber is run to a panel inside each subscriber's apartment unit, it is FTTH. If instead, the fiber goes only as far as the apartment building's shared electrical room (either only to the ground floor or to each floor), it

7176-403: The provider. A passive optical network (PON) is a point-to-multipoint FTTP network architecture in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve up to 128 customers. A PON reduces the fiber and central office equipment required compared with point-to-point architecture. Because of this, and because it needs no powered splitters or other active components from

7268-419: The quarter an "inflection point" for FuboTV as it was the first time the company grew revenue and subscribers sequentially in any first quarter despite seasonality trends. On June 1, Fast Company reported FuboTV would begin beta testing predictive, free-to-play games and a live stats feature called FanView, both integrated into its streaming video. The beta test would begin during FuboTV's exclusive streams of

7360-576: The rising popularity of high-definition , on-demand video streaming applications and devices such as YouTube , Netflix , Roku , and Facebook LIVE , the demand for reliable bandwidth is crucial as more and more people begin to utilize these services. FTTC (where fiber transitions to copper in a street cabinet) is generally too far from the users for standard Ethernet configurations over existing copper cabling. They generally use very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) at downstream rates of 80 Mbit/s , but this falls extremely quickly when

7452-512: The service to sections of Louisville in five months after it first announced that it would be coming to the city—faster than it had ever deployed before—by using shallow trenching. In February 2019 Google announced it would shut down service on April 15. Prior to departing, Google Fiber service was criticized for disruptive infrastructure installations and poor workmanship. Google agreed to pay $ 3.8 million for clean up. In February 2014, Google announced it had "invited cities in nine metro areas around

7544-399: The three FTTH Councils of Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific agreed upon definitions for FTTH and FTTB in 2006, with an update in 2009, 2011 and another in 2015. The FTTH Councils do not have formal definitions for FTTC and FTTN. While fiber optic cables can carry data at high speeds over long distances, copper cables used in traditional telephone lines and ADSL cannot. For example,

7636-839: Was added to the Russell 2000 Index at the conclusion of the 2021 Russell indexes annual reconstitution in June 2021. In November, FuboTV said that it had reached the one million subscriber mark. FuboTV launched Fubo Sportsbook, a mobile wagering app integrated with fuboTV's live TV streaming platform, on November 3. The company launched the app in Iowa and said more states are to follow. The company announced they had reached one million subscribers on their third quarter 2021 earnings call. FuboTV also announced it had signed an agreement to acquire France's leading live TV streaming platform, Molotov TV , to fuel its international expansion along with Indian AI startup edisn.ai. In January 2022, FuboTV acquired

7728-771: Was announced as a viable business model in December 2012, when Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt stated "It's actually not an experiment, we're actually running it as a business", at The New York Times ' DealBook Conference. Google Fiber announced expansion to Austin, Texas , and Provo, Utah , in April 2013, and subsequent expansions in 2014 and 2015 to Atlanta , Charlotte , Research Triangle , Nashville , Salt Lake City , and San Antonio . GFiber resumed expansion and by early 2024, GFiber also served Huntsville (Alabama), Maricopa County (Arizona), Des Moines and West Des Moines (Iowa), Omaha (Nebraska) among others. In August 2015, Google announced its intention to restructure

7820-656: Was chosen following a competitive selection process. Over 1,100 communities applied to be the first recipient of the service. Google originally stated that they would announce the winner or winners by the end of 2010; however, in mid-December, Google pushed back the announcement to "early 2011" due to the number of applications. The request form was simple, and, some have argued, too straightforward. This led to various attention-getting behaviors by those hoping to have their town selected. Some examples are given below: Municipalities and citizens also uploaded YouTube videos to support their bids. Some examples: In 2011, Google launched

7912-578: Was handled by a residential gateway provided by Advanced Digital Broadcast inside a subscriber's home to be shared with other consumer electronics (CE) devices. Since 2007, Italian access providers Fastweb , Vodafone , and Wind participated in an initiative called Fiber for Italy, with the aim of creating a countrywide fiber-to-the-home network in Italy. The pilot taking place in the Italian capital, Rome, has seen symmetrical bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s . Telecom Italia, which refused to take part in

8004-485: Was renamed fuboTV Media, Inc., and Facebank Group was renamed fuboTV, Inc., to be led by original fuboTV CEO David Gandler. According to the article, fuboTV plans to leverage Facebank's IP portfolio to create new streaming experiences for consumers and also expand internationally. FaceBank is traded on the OTC exchange and, following the merger, Gandler noted the company plans to uplist to a major stock exchange. Following its merger with FaceBank Group, FuboTV began trading on

8096-433: Was second in net additions of subscribers for the year with 173,000, according to Leichtman Research. In February 2024, FuboTV filed an antitrust lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company , Fox Corporation , and Warner Bros. Discovery over their recent announcement of a streaming sports joint venture (named Venu on May 16, 2024). The streaming joint venture said it would develop a sports-focused streaming service, which

8188-686: Was seen as potentially drawing customers away from Fubo. After filing its antitrust lawsuit, Fubo launched a website called "Save My Sports" as part of an outreach effort to rally public support for the lawsuit against the three broadcasters. Soon after, Fubo announced that it had signed a distribution deal with the YES Network to stream New York Yankees games, among other content. In April 2024, Fubo announced that it had removed Discovery networks content, “including Discovery, HGTV, Food Network and TLC, among others" from its service after failing to reach an agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery. Fubo said in

8280-596: Was the first live-TV streaming service to support 4K HDR video (2018 World Cup), and was the first to adopt an industry standard for handling sports blackouts. In December 2018, Fubo announced that it was going to expand into Spain. On February 20, 2019, it was announced that channels from Viacom Networks would be added on April 30, 2019, though these networks do not feature sports content. ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global ) does own an undisclosed stake in FuboTV, and future ViacomCBS deals will also include CBS carriage. On March 5, 2019, FuboTV expanded its 4K support to

8372-462: Was underway. However, in January 2017, construction was halted pending concerns about the placement of Google Fiber huts in city parks. Mayor Ivy Taylor expressed commitment to working with Google to address community concerns and allow the project to continue. As of May 9, 2019, Google Fiber had micro-trenched 600 miles of fiber in San Antonio neighborhoods. City staff said the majority was on

8464-427: Was uneconomic beyond these areas. Verizon also announced (at CES 2010) its entry into the smart home and power utility data management arenas, indicating it was considering using P1901-based FTTC or some other existing-wire approach to reach into homes, and access additional revenues from the secure AES-128 bandwidth required for advanced metering infrastructure . However, the largest 1 Gbit/s deployment in

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