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New Google Fiber Cities Announced
New submitter plate_o_shrimp sends word that Google has announced the next group of cities set to receive gigabit fiber infrastructure. They're concentrating on cities around four metro areas: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham. "We’ve been working closely with city leaders over the past year on a joint planning process to get their communities ready for Google Fiber—and now the really hard work begins. Our next step is to work with cities to create a detailed map of where we can put our thousands of miles of fiber, using existing infrastructure such as utility poles and underground conduit, and making sure to avoid things like gas and water lines. Then a team of surveyors and engineers will hit the streets to fill in missing details. Once we’re done designing the network (which we expect to wrap up in a few months), we’ll start construction." Google also said they're currently looking into Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and San Jose.
And that's why we need to make sure every Congressional Representative and Senator (not to mention the President, the Judges and other officers) has eat off SNAP, has to get their medical care from Medicaid providers or the VA, has to live in public housing, has to ride public transportation, and to send their own children to public schools. Apply to this to state officials as necessary.
'State and city officials in Oregon have said they are concerned a quirky Oregon tax law could be deterring Google. The provision in the law, known as "central assessment," levies property tax on communications companies based in part on the value of their corporate brands.'
http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2015/01/google_fiber_selects_four_citi.html
Being from the Kansas City Metro your post holds no water. The inner city got high speed internet first. Than your lower middle class neighborhoods. It is just now starting to roll out to the suburbs.
Can you imagine the red tape trying to do this in NY or Chicago?
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