Google launches 1Gbps Fiber network in Kansas City, unveils TV service

Google has officially flipped the switch on its first self-built, high-speed citywide network today. Lucky residents of Kansas City on both sides of the Kansas - Missouri state line are now able to get 1,000 Mbps download and upload speeds…

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The free market wins again. If government had complete control of the Internet we'd all be on dialup.

SOPA...........................................A duck lot of money.
PIPA.............................................Another duck lot of money.
120MB/s new private internet.......*Trollface*

Also like the bunny =D

Now that's some speed there..Plus! at a really really great price. Minus the $300 upfront money.
1TB cloud storage to boot. A lot more than ANY other company offering cloud storage.
$70 buck for just internet is awesome.Hope other ISP's wake to the over charging they are doing for there service. Like Verizon's 300 mbps at $210,which now seems over priced.Comcast 305mbps which cost a arm and a leg too..Plus there is NO data caps or overage charges either..
Win win for the consumer in KC.

You may want to keep your gift of seeing the future for alternate timelines a secret, before you are subjected to government-sponsored experiments.

Shhh....

That Infrastructure and speed and of course Will cannot be matched by the richest man on earth...Carlos Slim!!! Google should get this on other countries as well

I am so jealous. My dedicated server only gets a 100mbps line.

I really hope they are able to expand this throughout the US within the next couple years. I pay $71/month to comcast for 20/4 (or something like that) service. It's so frustrating to witness and be subjected to how cable and cellular companies are extorting customers.

Exciting news!

The faster Google can expand availability of this service, the sooner greedy cable and cellular corporations will feel the pressure to be competitive and bring their prices down from the clouds.

Thumbs up and +1 Google
TY

If Google can pull this off and expand nation wide, I'll have no choice but to change my attitude towards Google.

As it currently stands, I see no reason to support Google over other competitors with anything they have to offer.

Its sickening how awesome that is. We need this nation-wide pronto.

The average user will never benefit from this speed other than bragging rights. Should be reserved only for us power users that download large files (Blu Ray torrents at 4GB+ at a time just an example). But the average joe smo with their 2 yr old HP desktop with a 19 inch display they picked up at walmart for $399, no not needed.

Time to look at the Job Market in Kansas City.

That's what I'm saying bro and I'm fricken canadian lol!

Since you are isolating yourself from the average "joe smo", you should not complain about overages charged to your bandwidth usage. Everyone is equally as deserving of this higher bandwidth. The way one decides to use the bandwidth is irrelevant, that is if you want to pay the same price.

What does the age of their desktop and their display size have to do with internet speeds? And besides, today most users are what you describe as "power users". Seriously, do you know anybody between the ages of 15 and 30 who doesn't download multiple movies, songs, and apps at the same time while also streaming movies all while the rest of their family is using the internet at the same time? Regardless of their computer's specs they'd probably notice the difference.

Now that's some freakin speeds....

Google didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen....lol

wow I pay 50$ for 3 Mbps... google is really great!!!

It saddens me to think it cost $70 (Only gets me 30mbps and a 120GB monthly cap) for my current ISP package and $120 for TV alone. This is the not so free market I have to deal with in Quebec. Videotron has their monopoly and so does Bell, Google should come here and destroy Videotron's empire, or at least force them to wake up and smell the customers they're burning. As soon as this is available around here I'm switching, not like this will happen in the next 5 years unfortunately. Also jokes on the term "power user" the term is thrown around so much these days that it use has become almost meaningless. It should be interesting to see how Gigabit internet and piracy are going to mingle.

Holy mother!! I want it NOW! please roll this out at a faster rate! like X100 faster!!
Fight the "establishment"!! lol