I'm confused.

What market do they monopolize?

In what situation does anyone not have a choice as to whether to use some product or service offered by google, or one offered by another entity?

If you're a (any free email service) user, your messages and emails likely aren't as private as you'd think. (Your email provider) reads each and every one, .....

Not *everyone* would have to switch to it. And not everyone would (at least among those that had other options to start with).

But merely knowing customers had another option would hopefully put some pressure on the existing services to keep prices down and service levels up.

they plan to offer this on a competitive basis in all areas of the US (especially rural or suburban areas that currently have none or maybe just one existing broadband option, but even in areas that have both cable and phone options)

And that the pricing is within the reach of the average middle to low income person living in such areas.

Previously I've only seen experiments that focus on providing service to third world countries but ignore the bast under or unserved areas in the US (cough, project loon)

If this ever becomes fully available everywhere in the US, and is priced affordably, it may finally signal the start of the death of the monopolistic stranglehold the current broadband providers have on the market in the US.

That the current FCC seems to be approving of it, suggests to me that it WON'T. It will probably be priced similarly to other Musk offerings, so high as to only be affordable to people with 6 figure or higher salaries.

Because if there's one thing we know Pai protects, its the guaranteed mega profits of his corporate masters.

Got a link to a site or story that accused Trump of being a Russian agent?

If not, then your post is the exact sort of "fake news" that the story is about - putting words in other people's mouths.

1. Will the products be physically in stock for you to buy, load in your truck and take home? Or will it just be some sort of display where you have to order them and then wait?

2. Will they be anywhere near in a price range that someone could buy without taking out the equivalent of a 2nd mortgage?

Youd have the option to subscribe to cellular internet. Or you could opt to rely on using wifi (which could even be by tethering ti an existing cell)

Certainly not if it was locked into a ms os.

.. are leaving or have already left apple's walled garden and moved to Android-based devices.

iphones primary user base is people that barely know how to install an app, and jailbreaking would be like brain surgery for them

Far too many novice users have no understanding what a VPN is. And/or they assume you have to pay for one from some provider.

I myself use OpenVPN to tunnel to my home network when I am using my cell phone to provide access to my laptop, to protect my activity from my cellular carrier (I am not technically "allowed" to "tether") - it doesn't cost me anything, and as a bonus I can access devices on my home network such as IP cam's, etc without having to setup individual port-forwarding in the router.

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Is it a magical place?

You get that ability by buying the phone from someone OTHER than a cellular carrier. Either directly from Google for their direct branded phones, or from an independent electronics retailer that is not associated with a cellular service.

For instance: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...
lists a variety of LG, Motorola, and Samsung phones. Unlocked, no carrier bloatware.

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Don't give your bank account number to anyone to withdraw from directly, online or off. (That includes paypal)

Instead - use your BANK'S billpay service (almost all banks and CU's offer one), where you enter your bill account number on your bank's service, and then tetll your bank to send payment(s) in the amount you specify on the date you specify, and the biller (nor anyone that hacks their database) never has access to withdraw money from you.

For services that want a credit card and won't bill you, either

1. If you don't have good credit, buy prepaid reloadable visa or master cards, use a unique one for each biller. Reload them with JUST enough to cover the next month or two of charges.

2. If you have good credit, get a card from either BofA or Citibank - both offer a service where you can generate disposable numbers with a short expiration and chosen charge limit to use either for one-time payments or for recurring charges. You can always deactivate one of these to block future charges. BofA calls theirs "shopsafe", Citi calls it "Virtual Account Numbers"

NEVER give your hard credit card number to anyone online, nor to anyone for any sort of recurring billing. If its compromised, they have to cancel it, and you have to wait to get a new one in the mail.

If somewhere you want to buy from accepts paypal only (such as most eBay sellers), use paypal's "check out as guest with a CC" option and then use either of the two credit card options above (prepaid card, or virtual card)

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