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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."
So 1 GB? Thats only 8 seconds at 1 Gb/s. Now thats a low data cap, or a bad summery.
This is incredible.
Korea and Japan must be looking on in envy. Why, by the year 17000, over 50% of US homes will have a fast internet connection! Won't that be something!
to set up Gigabit internet service in 52 communities?
That's a real lofty goal.
And how much will this cost taxpayers in the for of subsidies for the large telecoms?
I'll take 100Mbit for $7
All it takes is $$, or $$$, or $$$$, or maybe even $$$$$ or $$$$$$. With enough money you can run your own fiber.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I am one of those residents - (Just moved back from Chicago-Land last October) - For those curious the city is pronounced O-LAYth-UH We are a suburb of KC and it seems the Olathe Government took cues from the issues with the city that Google was having In KC and tried to ease Google's issues by putting what they want explicitly in the writing of the contracts. I hope it arrives sooner than later and thank you for your Congratulations
Not only are they talking one community per state, they are counting each suburb as a different community, so it seems to me they are saying it will be years before it moves beyond the suburbs of capital cities. Which is a real shame because obviously this is a great ISP. Almost makes me wish I lived in Kansas City but... nah.
In 2002 they had residential 100mbit symmetrical connections for ~$50/month in Sweden. Still cant get anything near that in most of the US. But it's good to see google doing something about it, just a little frustrating that it's obviously going to be so long before this sort of thing is available where I live.
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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.
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.
1GB/s line, only 70 bucks / month
How do they make any profit ??
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... why Cox is buying up all the small CATV systems in Kansas that it can.
There is a war going on for your mind.
whoa...
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
> the FCC wants to see at least one community in each state with 1 Gigabit home service by 2015.
Aren't these the same helpers who spent a decade forbidding fiber to the house "to help us"?
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Yes, because Lithuania is exactly the same as the USA. Both in size and population there is an amazing similarity.
Skeptical Limericks
yes, you are a moron. Wiki Sweden vs USA and realize Sweden is 21 times smaller then the US by landmass.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Sweden is slightly larger than California.
6.13% to be exact.
I see some comments above saying Google can't possible do this and make a profit. I live in a rural area of Sweden and we got fiber to this small area years ago. And yes, we can have 1 GB/s if we pay for it, but it's quite expensive so most people go with 10/100mbit or 100/100mbit. Sure, you won't get 100mbit when downloading from China but you do mostly get it when downloading from Europe (and that means that most torrents download at full speed). 1 GB/s isn't "magic" or "impossible", it's just seems like magic because the US is years behind places like Sweden, Japan, Korea, etc. Locally 10/100 costs $52/month, 100/100 cost $62/month. 1GB/s costs $156/month. Google offers 1 GB/s for about half the price of what it costs here, so they are doing good, but still: I'm not that impressed.
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High speed internet? You're right. We wont ever get that. By the time we all have 1Gb/s service, the rest of the world will be cruising 100 Gb/s.
Explain to me how its ok that we have the slowest, least advanced, internet industry in the entire western world, AND WE INVENTED THE DAMN THING?!
Small towns of 10k people in Finalnd get 200 Mb/s hookups at 40$ month. For 40$/mo in the Us, you can get, maybe, 20 Mb/s. If you live in a big city, its easier, but thats only about 37% of our population. For the rest, the 25 Mb/S hookup is the top tier, 100+$ a month selection. Living in a small town of 10k people in this country you're lucky to get 12Mb/s for 50% mo, if you arent too far outside the city limits and restricted to dial up only, which is nearly 10% of the nation. (or satellite...but lets not even go there)
Morons? That dont get it? Sir, I believe you just described yourself.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
Admittedly as someone who has not really followed the google fiber thing, what is the catch? Does google get to monitor all of your traffic and pop up ads on your PC or sell that information to advertisers? Do you have to accept their CA so they can also monitor all of your SSL traffic? Do they port-block, or block VPN?
Bandwidth is nice and all, but for many uses latency matters more -- any numbers on what that will look like?
"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.
They can afford it.
The median income for a household was $61,111, and the median income for a family was $68,498 (these figures had risen to $72,634 and $82,747 respectively as of a 2007 estimate. Males had a median income of $45,699 versus $30,217 for females. The per capita income for the city was $24,498. About 2.4% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.1% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over.
The median age in the city was 32.9 years. 30% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 32.1% were from 25 to 44; 23.1% were from 45 to 64; and 7.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.[2010 Census Data]
Olathe, Kansas
The 2012 Median Income of US households was $45,018 per annum.
Household income in the United States
Olathe is 20 miles southwest of Kansas City.
In Kansas City, Google offers three tiers of service. The baseline fiber installation fee is $300, or $25 per month for 12 months. After paying that amount, Kansas City residents are guaranteed seven years of free broadband Internet service at current national âoeaverageâ speeds. The second tier costs $70 per month for the super-fast Internet service, and the top tier, which includes Google's TV service, costs $120 per month. The $300 installation fee is waived for the top two tiers.
Google Fiber Expanding Superfast Internet Service to Olathe, Kansas
Right, and I'm sure that your population is evenly distributed throughout your country, rather than being concentrated in two or three urban areas.
Don't forget the externalized costs. I wonder how much they get in subsidies? Would you be willing to fork over a $10,000 connection fee to hook up, and pay an additional $200 a month for the service? Probably not.
But I'm just shooting from the hip. I don't have any facts or figures beyond that people in socialist countries claim to be so much better off than everyone else while they devour their seed corn and still manage to have a lower standard of living than less socialist and even outright FASCIST countries like the US.
What you have described is fascism, not capitalism. Knowing the difference could save your life one day.
Please please please get it right:
1 GB = 1 Gigabyte, a measure of data
1 Gb/s = 1 Gigabit per second, a measure of data rate
1 MB = 1 Megabyte, a measure of data
1 mB = 1 millibyte, a measure of data that doesn't exist
This isn't grammar, it actually changes the meaning of your useless, ranting post. Get it right!
I live in Olathe and we have had fiber to the curb for a few years. I had 25 up/down for a while and downgraded it to 10/10 to save cost. I didn't notice a huge difference other than large files. Of course the difference between 25 and 10 is pretty small maybe with gb I would find new ways to use the internet that I had not considered before.
so. much. wrong. with. moronic. post.
you are an idiot. no really.
a class AAA, absolutely clueless, completely uninformed moron, who has exposed his own ignorance about his own nation, about infrastructure, and about the most basic of facts of foreign nations.
the US is the king of subsidies. subsidies to companies that repackage and resell us access to the very resources they theoretically merely hold in trust for us. how nice of you to ignore that.
Lower standard of living? Maybe if you cherry pick the poorest of nations. the US has the lower life expectency of any western nation. the US has a similar or somewhat higher per capita income than many european nations, yet with the money we have less buying power, resulting in being merely on par with or even below the per capita buying power of the majority of European nations, INCLUDING the Sweden and Finland. countries whom you dismiss as socialist, but are in actuality Parlimentary Republics much like own (whcih by the way is not fascist). you should maybe look up the definition of socialist...merely having a socialist party doesnt make ones country a socialist country. in addition most of these countries also have less income disparity (re: extremes, outliers), less poverty, lower unemployment...
But hey, I'm not shooting from the hip, i'm just spouting easily found facts and figures, rather than assuming my preconcieved notion is a fact rather than a hopeful wish.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
Isn't the high cost the reason so many people hate Comcast, Time Warner, etc? $70 is a lot for Internet, for a business it would be fine but for home use that's way expensive.
Meh. Twenty Eight dollars a month for 6Mb/s DSL is good enough for me. I'd go faster but for not much more money. Point is a connection is valuable, but very high bit rates will not make the experience that much better.
I literally have fiber in my back yard. Thank you SureWest.
Can choose Comcast. Piss on you Comcast.
ATT uverse or DSL. Thank you for the good $/bit ratio.
GOOG fiber is coming soon. Hype and price, no thanks. Though the 300 dollar for 5mb/s service offer is tempting.
You are parched, how much for a glass of water in the desert? The second, the third. The ninety-ninth? Once satiated the price you are willing to pay decreases to the point more glasses of water have no real value to you. In this case the 1gb/s 'glass' costs a lot more than the 6mb/s one that satisfy the need.
then I'll order it now, during the lunch break.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
As an Olathe-ite (-ian? whatever) I can't wait. Tired of being Comcasted and Uversed. Preparing to be Googled.
Don't ping my cheese with your bandwidth!
In all fairness, that is only one of the factors. Another pretty big one is likely the artificially high prices on anything that has that "enterprise" prefix on a product description, or anything that could be used by some pesky upstart.
It could also be the plethora of red tape and lawsuits that seem to be our thing here in the US.
Honestly, I'd put the landmass at a distant 3rd, at best.
There is not yet one inch of Google fiber actually run here in Olathe. I figure minimum 6 months before they start laying it, and several years before it is available to more than a few.
In that time much can change.