Sounds like the KC municipal governments rolled out the subsidy trough for Google here, which I'm sure played a big part. Also, I would imagine the market for c

Sounds like the KC municipal governments rolled out the subsidy trough for Google here, which I'm sure played a big part. Also, I would imagine the market for connectivity in KC is closer to the national average that it'd be in NYC or SF, so Google gets a better idea of how to sell their service. To be clear, I welcome this development. I am skeptical of Google, but symmetrical 1Gb/s opens the door for actual technical solutions to the potential privacy nightmares, rather than relying on the utterly corrupt state machinery to provide anything like a remedy. All broadband providers are heavily subsidized, and while my preferred solution is pretty radically different than opening the market slightly wider for more regulated oligarchic giants, I'd rather Google get the subsidy than one of the unquestionably horrid cable/telco dinosaurs.