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Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas
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."
What can you do with 1 Gigabit Google Fibre that you can't do with 20Mbps DSL or 50Mbps Cable internet? Obviously I am talking about residential customers and not data centers or commercial users. Complete overblown PR hype by Google and lovingly covered by media outlets getting on the bandwagon desperate for content to fill their websites and news-cycles.
What is this? The Kansas local newspaper?
I'm not normally one to criticize Slashdot editors for their choice of articles, but this seems just a little bit too local. High speed internet is being rolled out across the globe. In the Netherlands, you can just order it built to your home or office, and if you're lucky, the laying of the actual cable itself doesn't cost any money, so you just pay your local internet provider.
Or is this just the 1st place in the USA that has entered the 21st century? Welcome.
p.s. For the skeptics, here's a random link of fibreoptic internet in Veendam, which is the Dutch equivalent of a prairie town in Kansas.
http://www.veendamkrijgtglasvezel.nl/