Free Press, an organization that advocates for open Internet access, said the benefits of the Google Fiber project remain mostly unknown.

"One [lesson] that's already clear is that true broadband competition and world class service at affordable rates are not coming to the vast majority of American consumers," said S. Derek Turner, Free Press research director, in an email to Computerworld..

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in Computerworld's Wireless Networking Topic Center.