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Kansas City gets hooked up with Google Fiber
People walk past a Google stand at the Campus Party 2012 technology festival at former Tempelhof Airport on August 22, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.
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Today, Google unveils the neighborhoods in Kansas City, Mo., that will get a fiber-optic Internet hook-up the rest of us can only dream of. Google picked Kansas City from a thousand cities around the country for its so-called "Google Fiber" pilot program.
It is clear that although Google will ultimately profit from such ventures, they are also doing the city a service by laying all this fiber around the city. Still, some residents see problems arising.
Most neighborhoods in town are expected to qualify for the service -- but it'll start at $70 a month, so it's not clear how many people will sign up.
"A lot of the concern has been about the issue of the digital divide," says Aaron Deacon of the market research firm, Curiolab. "There are a lot of people -- 20 to 25 percent of households -- who don't have any Internet connection right now."
"There's become an intense interest," he adds, "in: How do we provide the connectivity -- even at current speeds -- to communities and individuals who don't have that right now, who don't understand why it's worthwhile."
The hope is that this "Google Fiber" program will help start to fill in the gaps in connectivity, especially in poorer neighborhoods.
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Speed technicalities aside, what Google in the fiberhoods of Kansas City will create is a whole new superfast data highway "vehicle" for helping people in all walks of life. It will be a much faster pathway to greater digital access and to a new way to use the internet to improve employment opportunities, access better healthcare and just plain learn more things about the world in a whole new way. When everyone understands this and adoption reaches an inflection point of wide acceptance, then we will have "bridged the digital divide" in Kansas City!
I need to correct myself on the experience of speed. When I said 20-30x faster, I was thinking download though I gave an upload example. Download speeds are advertised as "100 times faster" which is true when you compare 1,000 Gbps with 10 Mbps. But comparing my 30-40 Mbps at home vs a legit 600-800 Gbps at the Google Fiber space accounts for the 20-30x.
I haven't uploaded 10,000 songs on Google Fiber, but when I did a year or so ago, it took 48 hours. I expect the difference would be considerable over a Gig connection, and now that I think of it, I may go try it.
