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In Kansas City, the "pick your plan" phase only came after the "qualify your fiberhood" phase. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-get-google-fi

• rayiner 12y ago
  Fair enough, but: > All you need to do for pre-registration is provide some basic information (like your name and address) and pay a $10 deposit [with a credit card]. When the results first came in, the fiberhoods were divided among racial and economic lines: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/02/21/google-making-digital-divide-worse-245546.html http://www.newsweek.com/2014/02/21/google-making-digital-div.... Now Google did a lot after the fact to generate interest in those neighborhoods that had been left-out, and sign up more of them. But let's not forget they have substantial PR reasons for doing so. My intention isn't to question Google's motives, but to point out that even Google has refused to accept build-out requirements, of the sort that are almost universally included in franchise agreements. What does that tell you about how these requirements impact competition in other markets? What impact do they have on potential fiber ISP's who don't have Google's PR motivations?