Fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks have long held a technological advantage over cable with respect to upstream speeds. But that message has been an easier one to relay and explain to consumers during the pandemic as they worked and schooled from home and took fuller advantage of upstream-intensive apps such as video conferencing, a Google Fiber exec said today at the 2020 Virtual Fiber Connect event. Those upload capabilities are a "huge differentiator" for Google Fiber and other ISPs that run service on fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks, Melani Griffith, VP of customer engagement at Google Fiber, said today during a keynote discussion. "COVID, in many ways, has helped tell that story for us ... People didn't get it," said Griffith, an industry exec late of Penthera (a software company that specializes in video downloading apps) as well as Canada's Rogers Communications and Insight Communications (a cable op acquired by Time Warner Cable in 2012). "It's a challenge. If you can't explain it in six seconds, you've lost people."