Source: Google starting the dialogue on National Broadband and creating a POC
As discussed in class no one really knew how serious Google was when it put out the request for bids from cities for installation of high speed broadband.
It received inqiuries from 1100 cities and finally chose Kansas City. The end result this summer for about $70 -- ability to download a hi-def movie in about 7 seconds and offering a free Nexus 7 mini tablet as a remote and 1 Tera byte of data storage!! ( more than enough for any content you could ever accumulate). Speeds averaging 700+ Mbps ... the current cable broadband provides about 8-10Mbps (if you're lucky). Columbia Wi-fi is about 80-90 Mbps. LTE is about 100-120 Mbps.
Goldman Sachs estimated that in order to extend this infrastructure nationally the cost would be about $140 billion. Although that's a mammoth investment and not something Google can undertake by itself (it has $46 billion in cash).
All this at a very minimum should raise the discussion about the current investment into infrastructure by the big ISPs and the current bottlenecks on bandwidth. As residents of Kansas city have no doubt realized that its a life alteritng experience. This can be a boon for not only regular users but entrepreneurs and businesses in terms of connectivity and online presence.
Link: Google fibre is live in KC
As discussed in class no one really knew how serious Google was when it put out the request for bids from cities for installation of high speed broadband.
It received inqiuries from 1100 cities and finally chose Kansas City. The end result this summer for about $70 -- ability to download a hi-def movie in about 7 seconds and offering a free Nexus 7 mini tablet as a remote and 1 Tera byte of data storage!! ( more than enough for any content you could ever accumulate). Speeds averaging 700+ Mbps ... the current cable broadband provides about 8-10Mbps (if you're lucky). Columbia Wi-fi is about 80-90 Mbps. LTE is about 100-120 Mbps.
Goldman Sachs estimated that in order to extend this infrastructure nationally the cost would be about $140 billion. Although that's a mammoth investment and not something Google can undertake by itself (it has $46 billion in cash).
All this at a very minimum should raise the discussion about the current investment into infrastructure by the big ISPs and the current bottlenecks on bandwidth. As residents of Kansas city have no doubt realized that its a life alteritng experience. This can be a boon for not only regular users but entrepreneurs and businesses in terms of connectivity and online presence.
Link: Google fibre is live in KC
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