nsane.forums Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Google's plan to offer a super fast Internet broadband service in Kansas City continues to make progress. This week the official Google Fiber blog site has announced that residents of the Midwest city "may notice a few engineers walking around, consulting maps and surveying your street or neighborhood." That means that Google has started the next phase of bringing a 1 Gbps Internet service to the people of both Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. According to the blog site, "The detail engineering phase will help us gather the geographical information we need to build the Google Fiber network later this year." It added, "You may also see these engineers counting or measuring telephone and utility poles. Their work may look a little strange to observers, but it will help us deploy Google Fiber to the community as quickly and efficiently as possible." Google first announced back in March that Kansas City, Kansas had been selected for Google's 1 Gbps broadband service after going through thousands of applications from US cities. In May, Google announced that the neighboring and larger city of Kansas City, Missouri would also benefit from its broadband project. The service is expected to go live for at least some of the city's residents sometime in early 2012. So far Google has not announced what those citizens will have to pay to get the super fast broadband access. In related news, Google has now launched a much smaller 1 Gbps service in Stanford, California. According to the Palo Alta Patch web site, the service has come only for some of the faculty and students who live around Stanford University. That project is considered to be a beta test for the much larger Kansas City project. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMANTICGUY50 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I do wonder how much it is gona cost. I would say a lot. We have Comcast in our area and 100mbs and it costs over 100 bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Because it's Google, it's gonna be sorta cheap. My internet speed is a 10 MB connection but I only actually download at 1.5 MB per second and I pay about 100 dollars a month for it. I feel like I'm getting ripped off, big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I do wonder how much it is gona cost. I would say a lot. We have Comcast in our area and 100mbs and it costs over 100 bucksyou still have the 250 GB cap per month? with newsgroups i could use al that up in 6 hours at that speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashar Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 wow speak about cheap stuffi have only 2Mbps and i pay 120 USD :fear:why dont we have google here :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuthut Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 hate to burst y'alls bubbles.... 15 Meg "slow service" for $40 a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 More than likely they're setting up infrastructure for their cloud computing. I would hate to see things go that direction personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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