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Surewest/Consolidated announced upgrading their fiber network to Gigabit for $70/month. They already have fiber service in Lenexa/parts of JoCo and Central KCMO. Unlike Google they'll also offer low/mid tiers, which will be interesting to see how they price out. For those who can get it, you might c...

I've had Google fiber with the TV package for some time now and over all pretty happy with it. My only complaint is that since I live in a concrete building the Wifi doesn't extend all the way to the back rooms as strong as I would like. They only made one drop and won’t add any others. And that dr...

Agree with PV already doing the 'lawn' park thing. Would still like to see Philly's Rittenhouse Square type landscaping shown in first few posts. This park will be at the end of the streetcar line and could attract more CC, US and Liberty Memorial visitors, as well as a great place for downtowner re...

So does anyone know if TimeWarner has started the 300Mbps rollout and which areas?

The Star article says 4 SF Bay Area companies moved to KC in last year.

Oakland CA Solar company opening downtown KC office starting with about 50 jobs, to eventually add nearly 600 jobs, including design engineering... http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2014/11/14/sungevity-solar-power-sales-service-center.html?page=all KC Star says it's a national office and t...

GF just expanded biz class to a bunch more fiberhoods. River Market can now get it... http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2014/11/13/google-fiber-expands-biz-product-footprint.html?s=image_gallery Would love to see River Market create a new Startup Village (or Xroads when it can get biz class...

What sets Costco apart is the forever return on most products (except most electronics, which is 90 days like Walmart). It's basically a forever warranty. I bought a Roomba robot vac that is known to be high maintenance, it can break every 6mo to year. Can easily return and get another. Have returne...

Google also now says they don't plan on small biz class service in either Austin or Provo. AT&T just today said they will halt nationwide fiber rollout until Net Neutrality is resolved (that will take a while, poor Leawood). As long as KC is only market (or one of few) with $100 symmetrical Giga...

Yeah, curious locations to start with but another article said all fiberhoods should get Biz Class within months.

Yeah, we need to see the terms. I would think it would be at least as good as TWC Small Biz Class service ToS but not as good as Enterprise Class like MPLS circuit. Maybe somewhere in between. A GF engineer told me the network is designed to supply at least 800M per sub even under extremely heavy ne...

And the news is quickly spreading around the AP/Reuters feeds and tech/telcom blogs. KC could more likely capitalize on small biz class service than residential service if other Gigabit ISPs in other cities don't follow suit... https://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=e...

Is the garage next to it designed in a way to allow adding more levels?

Flyers going out for Business Class Service, $100/month... http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/bizventures-kc/2014/11/google-fiber-small-business-service.html If other markets with Gbit don't offer biz call service priced this low, it could be a boost for KC, attracting more small biz and st...

Actually, I missed the bi-state part - kinda changes the context a bit much.

That's typically for Enterprise class service ($1000s/month+ for 100Mbit), which allows running web servers with thousands of concurrent sessions, with high quality of service SLAs - intended for data centers. Most ISPs for small/medium biz (SMB) are about $200-$300 for 50-150Mbit. I image the terms...

Flyers going out for Business Class Service, $100/month... http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/bizventures-kc/2014/11/google-fiber-small-business-service.html If other markets with Gbit don't offer biz call service priced this low, it could be a boost for KC, attracting more small biz and sta...

Homage?

Sounds quite good, looking forward to checking out it.