<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/google-fiber-will-hit-89-of-neighborhoods-some-poor-areas-miss-out/">http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/google-fiber-will-hit-89-of-neighborhoods-some-poor-areas-miss-out/</a><div>
<br></div><div>**</div><div><span style="color:rgb(38,48,52);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Google </span><a href="http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/congratulations-kansas-city.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(105,159,179);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">announced yesterday</a><span style="color:rgb(38,48,52);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> that it has closed preregistration, with 180 out of the 202 fiberhoods meeting their goals. People living in one of these neighborhoods can </span><a href="http://fiber.google.com/how/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(105,159,179);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">sign up</a><span style="color:rgb(38,48,52);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> starting September 13. </span><span style="color:rgb(38,48,52);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,204,0)">For $70 per month, residents can get Gigabit Internet, and for $120 per month</span><span style="color:rgb(38,48,52);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, they can get Gigabit Internet service plus TV. There's even a "free" Internet tier with 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. The free tier requires a one-time construction fee of $300 or 12 monthly payments of $25, but Google guarantees the free service for seven years.</span></div>
<div>**</div><div><br></div><div>About the same price the rest of </div><div>us pay for about 3% of that bandwidth.</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder where Google with go with</div><div>this next?  i.e., if that $70 represents</div>
<div>a true service price, I'd think the door</div><div>would be open to many other cities,</div><div>on the way to creating Google Net.</div><div><br></div><div>Even that "free" service works out to</div><div>
about $45 a year, or less if Google</div><div>extends it.</div><div><br></div><div>  -- Bob</div><div><br></div>