For one, it'd be much more expensive in the massive sprawl of San Jose and all but impossible to deploy in San Francisco or Palo Alto. For two, there's this bi

For one, it'd be much more expensive in the massive sprawl of San Jose and all but impossible to deploy in San Francisco or Palo Alto. For two, there's this big question of how the cable and telecom companies are going to oppose this. Part of this fiber rollout is sort of an elaborate demonstration to the big cable and DSL providers in which Google says, "You are aware we can cheerfully destroy your market if you don't improve and play ball with us." If the KC deployment goes well, Comcast and friends will have to start thinking very long and hard about how they are going to keep Google out of their slice of the market, because given the current climate in politics they probably aren't going to be able to make an anti-trust argument stick.