Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:01PM from the coming-soon dept.

skade88 writes "If you are one of the lucky 125,000 people who live in Olathe, Kansas, the rest of us congratulate you on your new amazing $70.00/month, 1 GB Google fiber service. Google also announced they will be letting us know about further cities that will be wired up with Google Fiber service soon. This shows that Google Fiber is not just a sandbox they are going to keep in Kansas City, Google Fiber is a real business they will keep expanding. In other exciting news, the FCC wants to see at least one community in each state with 1 Gigabit home service by 2015."

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Re:Wow, amazing by rusty0101 · 2013-03-20 19:48 · Score: 5, Interesting

I think the providers in South Korea and Japan have figured out that they have a market for the out of date networking equipment they are replacing.

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I find it interesting .... by ChronoFish · 2013-03-20 20:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

That Google choose what is pretty much the geographic center of the (continental) US to start this endeavor.

From Kansas City,
1500 miles to Google (Pacific ocean)
1000 miles to Atlantic ocean
660 miles to Canada
660 miles to Gulf of Mexico

And is uniquely situated, split between Kansas and Missouri.

Really does make for a great statement to grow the broadband infrastructure from the center out.