Google Awards Kansas City, KS With Gigabit Fiber
The rest of the nation is jealous.
People of Kansas City, Kansas rejoice that Google has picked you to be the very first in the nation to be a part of its gigabit fiber initiative.
Nearly 1,100 cities petitioned to Google to be the city, including Topeka, Kansas, which changed its name to Google in hopes of wooing the search company's heart. While Google picked within Kansas, it wasn't the town of Google that got the nod.
"After a careful review, today we’re very happy to announce that we will build our ultra high-speed network in Kansas City, Kansas," the company wrote in a blog post. "We’ve signed a development agreement with the city, and we’ll be working closely with local organizations, businesses and universities to bring a next-generation web experience to the community."
"In selecting a city, our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the community and develop relationships with local government and community organizations. We’ve found this in Kansas City," the post continued. "We’ll be working closely with local organizations including the Kauffman Foundation, KCNext and the University of Kansas Medical Center to help develop the gigabit applications of the future."
Google aims to start service in 2012. Google says it will continue working on bringing gigabit fiber to other cities soon. Fingers crossed!
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So, good news for Google and Kansas.
On the other hand, the rest of us have crap speed service. This only proves we can have the service, just no one choose it to serve the good of the public. Just another example of companies working for themselves. (Except Google as of now.)
Just until incumbent ISPs try to derail this project.
Just until incumbent ISPs try to derail this project.
Or jack up their prices for everybody else, to compensate for the loss of business in Kansas.
Yeah, the ISPs will lose both of their customers in Kansas, and we are all going to have to foot the bill!!!
So, good news for Google and Kansas.On the other hand, the rest of us have crap speed service. This only proves we can have the service, just no one choose it to serve the good of the public. Just another example of companies working for themselves. (Except Google as of now.)
And thats how the Democracy/Capitalism works...you guys have quite a ways to go to make this a good government system. Not saying Communism is better or anything lawls.
All bow before Google, new gods of Cyberspace! Now to send Facebook updates in Kansas it will have to go through Google's Interweb Tubes and be tagged with ads according to the responses. Now Google just needs to purchase Cisco and make all the routers tag all traffic with sweet ads.
So, good news for Google and Kansas.On the other hand, the rest of us have crap speed service. This only proves we can have the service, just no one choose it to serve the good of the public. Just another example of companies working for themselves. (Except Google as of now.)
thats american greed....elsewhere in the world speeds are faster and cheaper then the states.
@wawa. No. That's the us's aged information infastructure. Us has some of the longest distances to cover of any natoin. The onlt natoin as large as us with comprable internet speeds to my knowledge is china. And their setup is under 10 years old. Ours meanwhile is between 30 and 80 years old
Congrats Kansas City. I hope it goes well and the networks spread.
that's it!!!!
I'm moving to Kansas City, Kansas...tornadoes be DAMMED!!!
After battling ISPs over net neutrality etc. Google decides: if you can't beat the ISPs, become an ISP!
YESSSSSSSSS!!! Haha what are the chances that i live there?
Damn it, I liked it when my 101 Mbps was best in the nation...
*moves to Kansas*
All bow before Google, new gods of Cyberspace! Now to send Facebook updates in Kansas it will have to go through Google's Interweb Tubes and be tagged with ads according to the responses. Now Google just needs to purchase Cisco and make all the routers tag all traffic with sweet ads.
haha. i totally giggled like a schoolgirl at this comment. Not all google ads are bad. Ever encounter some of those that make you stop and think just who's been using your computer or what the hell you've been doing while you're asleep?
This is awesome news. Somebody needs to pick up the slack where Frontier Communications and Verizon have left off. Frontier is in serious danger of going out of business in many, if not all of their markets. Without a fiber optic network (which cable companies don't have) nobody will get high speed internet in the USA.
Looks like they misspelled Tampa =[.
Any chance of Cambridge as first UK city?
Here in Alabama I get 85 MBs down/5 Mps up with Comcast Docsis 3.0 service but it is $100 a month for it and a special modem. But its so worth it I can get 4GB files (Torrents) in less than 20 min.
@wawa. No. That's the us's aged information infastructure. Us has some of the longest distances to cover of any natoin. The onlt natoin as large as us with comprable internet speeds to my knowledge is china. And their setup is under 10 years old. Ours meanwhile is between 30 and 80 years old
You do know that there are tons of dark fiber not even being used crisscrossing the nation, yes? Sure the 'last mile' part is a bit old in places, but that is because of apathy and greed. Chances are you probably live within 50-75 miles of a fiber trunk.
Telcos don't want technology to advance. They want to keep raking in the profits and keeping a steady system that they don't have to change or adapt to.
Every time a city or citizen group says "ENOUGH" and starts to build their own fiber to the home service? They're sued to death by the Telcos for "unfair Competition".
I for one Hope Google can make this happen and tell the Teclos to SHUT UP OR PUT UP.
well lucky them. i guess it was the cheapest place for them to setup and good infrastruture.
These speeds will never hit NYC or Queens, etc. perhaps in 2025 at an affordable rate.
Noooooo....it's was supposed to be Boise. It's isolated, mid-size, and ready for our new search overlords!
Anyone know what the price of the service would be?
come on now guys its only going to inspire competition which is good for us.
I want Google to become it's own ISP.
I said I would never move to Kansas City.
I've changed my mind.
Ok im a little lost here...Im from Kansas city, MO Which is where the "city" is in our metro area is located. Kansas City, ks is a huge Ghetto(think Watts with rednecks sprinkled in)...are they talking about the Kansas city metro in the State of Kansas(Johnson County, Crimedot county, and Leavenworth county) or are they talking about the city limits of Kansas city, Ks? Are they talking about the greater Kansas city area which is only 1/2 in kansas? or are they talking about the shit hole that is Kansas city, Ks proper? I will say this, IF its only in Kansas city, Ks proper it will fail, because many of the residents of that city limit are at or below the poverty line. Hopefully its on both sides of the state line. There is only 146,000 people in the city limits, it would be silly to not include the whole metro area.
it's going to be VERY expensive. like more than $1000 per month
Your only as fast as the other guy.
I am more excited than the first time I bought a computer. I live in Overland Park, hope they decide to include here also.
Yay! Now instead of hundreds of gigabytes on data being down/uploaded it's in the hundreds of terrabytes!
Downloading 100TB per month sooner or later you're gonna run out of data to download!
Yay! Now instead of hundreds of gigabytes on data being down/uploaded it's in the hundreds of terrabytes!Downloading 100TB per month sooner or later you're gonna run out of data to download!
I doubt that considering each year we create more data then the next somewhere around 800 exabytes last year and they project about 1200 exabytes for this year its mind boggling the amount of data is out there.
http://www.catalystsecure.com/blog [...] ght-think/