Sorry Rochester that Google did not choose you for their experiment.
If Google can make internet access cheaper, I'm all for this. Go Google.
There’s no place like home — especially if you live Kansas City, Kansas, where houses will soon be connected to the net by fiber-optic cables that Google promises will deliver 1-gigabit-per-second internet connections — roughly a hundred times faster than a typical 10-Mbps cable connection.
With that fast a connection, it becomes possible to download a full-length feature film from iTunes in seconds.
More than 1,100 cities and town applied to be the testbed, highlighting the dismal state of broadband connections around the country. The Tuesday announcement came after more than a year of deliberations and a change of leadership in the project.
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