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!

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.)
Or jack up their prices for everybody else, to compensate for the loss of business in Kansas.
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.
thats american greed....elsewhere in the world speeds are faster and cheaper then the states.
I'm moving to Kansas City, Kansas...tornadoes be DAMMED!!!
*moves to Kansas*
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?
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.
These speeds will never hit NYC or Queens, etc. perhaps in 2025 at an affordable rate.