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Startup founder will pay $500 to increase his odds to get Google Fiber
Google announced today it would begin offering its Google Fiber network in Kansas City, Kan. and central Kansas City, Mo. to residential neighborhoods that expressed the most interest. To show that interest, residents have the opportunity through Sept. 9 to pre-register for Google Fiber, paying a $10 deposit and providing basic information. …
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Google Fiber unveils three residential packages, including “free” plan
Google today unveiled its plans to roll-out Google Fiber in Kansas City, Kan. and central Kansas City, Mo. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company will first offer its ultra high-speed network to residents and, according to Google Access’ general manager, Kevin Lo (right), packages for business are coming soon. Just as Google decided …
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Watch the Google Fiber announcement (Video)
Google Fiber arrives today, or so Google announced last week of its ultra high-speed network, which will provide internet connections to homes in Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. at speeds 100 times faster than high-speed broadband. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company first revealed in March of 2011 that Kansas City, Kan. …
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Google Fiber arrives today. How did we get here?
The only way Kansas City could be any higher on fiber today is if every barbecue joint in town spiked its sauce with Metamucil. Anticipation on both sides of State Line Road is high as residents of Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Kan. await word about the Google Fiber project. The heightened anticipation comes…
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Google Fiber “arrives on July 26,” new KC video spot announces
Truman defeating Dewey. Satchel Paige firing a fastball. Charlie Parker playing bebop. The Google Fiber ad spot posted this morning on the Google Fiber Blog certainly pulls at Kansas City’s collective heart strings. And, with the obligatory shot of a steaming stack of short ribs, it also activates the salivary glands. But the 30-second spot…
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Gig Bits: Mayors’ task force unveils ‘playbook,’ Fiber timetable delayed
Nearly two months have passed since the last installment of our Gig Bits series. That gap in coverage can be explained, in part, by the fact that it’s been all quiet on the Fiber front — at least from Google’s side, anyway. The Kansas City Star reported earlier this month that the timetable for Fiber…
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Paul Kedrosky touts merits of ‘waste’ in latest Google Fiber talk (Video)
Kansas City is on the verge of an opportunity for unprecedented waste. And that, Paul Kedrosky believes, could be a wonderful thing. That was the message Kedrosky (left), a senior fellow at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, conveyed to a lunchtime crowd on April 18 in the third installment of the Kauffman…
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Gig Bits: Q&A sheds light on 100-mile mark, Fiber Huts
Google has already hung more than 100 miles of fiber on utility poles throughout Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. But that’s not all that’s up in the air when it comes to Google’s ultra high-speed network. A post Wednesday on the Google Fiber Blog shed some light on what stands between Kansas Citians…
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Gig Bits: A television tussle, a new-look website and free fiber in town
All this talk about Google Fiber Bars making anyone else hungry? Well worry not; we’re here to help curb that appetite with another heaping helping of Gig Bits. TV tussle: As we reported Sunday, Google Fiber put its own unique twist on Google’s customary April 1 fun, claiming that Google Fiber was actually a nutritional…
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April Fools: Google Fiber Bar, Iowa Foxconn plant and a new ‘Lab’
Three Silicon Prairie cities are the subjects of a couple April Fools’ Day jokes today. First, Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Kan., the cities chosen by Google in 2011 to be the first to receive its coveted gigabit internet speed later this year, were announced as the launch pad of the internet giant’s first…